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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,...

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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

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