Summary of Post / TLDR;

Idealogs is a new kind of reference work for explaining complex, controversial topics.
The objective of the project is to establish, preserve, and share the sum total of mankind’s understanding.
The problems we are focused on:
- A society oversaturated with information, much of it meaningless
- A well-founded, but misguided obsession with finding the perfect answer, at the expense of the more productive, meaningful challenge of finding the right question.
- A media ecosystem that overwhelmingly incentivizes entertainment at the expense of public affairs reporting
Our solution:
- An online collection of crowdsourced, user-edited articles (akin to Wikipedia) which summarize and analyze the major writings, claims, and questions which underlie controversial subjects of interest.
Like Wikipedia, this is a noncommercial, nonprofit, user-driven, and user-managed project whose fortunes ride on finding a community of volunteers who believe in and are passionate about the idea. The success of this project hinges on fostering a community similar to that of LessWrong, where contributors are individuals who are interested in the pursuit of understanding itself, and the pursuit of sharing that understanding with others. Consequently, I think this community would uniquely appreciate this project and have interesting things to say about it. The site is accessible at https://www.idealogs.org, and I would love to hear your thoughts, reactions, comments below :)

Introduction

Hi! Over the past four years I have been developing an idea for an online repository of understanding in my free time, gradually transforming the concept from an abstraction to a production-ready website. I am excited to announce that the project has now reached a stage where it is ready for a wider audience, and I am reaching out to the LW community in particular because I believe you are in a unique position to provide feedback and evaluation of the product itself and the philosophical ideas underpinning it. This is not a promotion, but instead:

A collection of metaphysical ideas that I have spent a large chunk of my life thinking about and pursuing, which at last have merged into a tangible system with potential to bring real change to the world.
A request for genuine feedback on both the finished product and the ideas underpinning it.

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