johnmarkos wrote:It occurs to me that by contributing data, information, knowledge, and opinion to this site, we are developing a hugely valuable research tool. We create a common awareness of developing data and use "the wisdom of crowds" to refine our understanding of the implications of that data.
Seems like, considering the immense value of this knowledge, we should be able to get a think tank to hire us all so we can quit our day jobs and become full time public intellectuals.
Huh? What do you mean “should”?
You haven’t already been getting a check every week from Aaron just for this purpose?
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