Since my views are intended to be part of the discussion here, there are not well thought-through by your standards. My apologies- if you want to stop reading leplen, you have every right to.

I'm a Melbourne University first-year student, which qualifies me as "intellectual elite" by some descriptions and not by others. My thoughts:

1- Use censored forums, where you have to show some degree of credentials to be allowed to make a response. Either make there rules to prevent somebody getting in at all to avoid jealousy, or make criterion of intellectual content merely to post. These standards would be much higher than the current Lesswrong Karma standards. 2- Have permanent "spotlight" posts. 3- Have significant numbers of "reinforcement" posts for the masses, designed to encourage them to read said posts and gradually change themselves bit by bit. These posts won't be mere padding, as they will focus on delving into how to change one's life to adapt to the things learned in the "top-level" posts.

These require a lot of institutional change, which requires Elizier to get behind the idea and it's advantages. If he does, however, making changes to the site to solve these problems is trivial.