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Information is pretty much freely available to everyone already. The value of that information, however, has dropped to near-zero from the point of view of uninitiated - as various groups with agendas publish lies which then get regurgitated by clueless people, we have enough freely available information on any topic to confirm any biases you started with.

So for example, you love GMOs because they're cool and futuristic. So here, read that study on this new plant that is safe and abundant in vitamins and can save a million of children a year from blindness. Or maybe, you hate GMOs because they're unnatural and a product of humans messing up with what God has perfectly made - ok, here, have those 10 papers that have words "GMO", "rats" and "cancer" in them.

What we need is a system that doesn't incentivize people to lie and cheat as much as the current does.




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