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J C10

it would have to be a third party service, perhaps appended to peoples names via a chrome extension at first?

it would also have to be auditable publically so people could see each individual prediction that lead to the overall score. similar to an amazon rating or rotten tomatoes score. 

as they're rated you can also begin to introduce other ratings and classifiers beyond just accurate or inaccurate. 

J C10

Even with the organizing technology, there are no outspoken people who have decided to act as leaders of these movements. No martin luther kings, Malcom Xs, or huey newtons, or fred hamptons. My suggestion is no one wants to be those guys because they all got assassinated. thus these movements sadly remain unorganized and leaderless.

1Dustin
It seems more likely to me that modern technology has made it harder for someone to become a leader even if there are people who have decided to act as such. It does not seem likely to me that there are no outspoken people who want to be leaders or that they are, in general, afraid of assassination. Take the realm of elected political leaders. By the very nature of this realm there is just one person of focus for each campaign and I'm not under the impression that there are a dwindling number of campaigns for political office...a position that has been under threat of assassination over history.
0ChristianKl
Anybody who's very outspoken doesn't survive in today's highly political correct enviroment of the left. If you take a person like Sarah Wagenknecht who's outspoken and an leader on the left she enough thought that was independent from left wing orthodoxy to not ally effectively. 
Answer by J C-20

While i dont have a definitive answer, i will say one of the reasons that left wing political movements nowadays (Occupy wall st, BLM, the environmental movement) dont have the same pronounced leaders that the left wing movements of the 1960's did, is due to the targeted arrest, harassment and assassination of those leaders by authorties.

3Dustin
Was that actually the plan or just a post facto explanation? My prior would be that this happened because of the organizing mechanisms of the day (internet vs in-person meeting of the past).
J C10

luckily they also seem to be ahead of this trend by developing the driverless taxi fleet capability in their cars. it seems they're actively counting on and accelerating this trend.

cost of ownership will also go down commensurately since owners will be able to send out their cars to be used as autonomous taxis while not needed, thus earning money and offsetting the cost. potentially paying back the cost.

also given their position in grid level storage they have the ability to recycle the battery of the car for grid storage, thus lowering the long ter... (read more)