Crowdfund the Truth

Friday, May 27th, 2016

Pax Dickinson (@paxdickinson) recently announced his new information marketplace, Wesearchr (@wesearchr), which promises to crowdfund the truth.

Nick Land declares it huge:

It’s what media following the grain of the Internet looks like (if only as a preliminary glimpse).

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The conception alone crosses an honesty threshold. There is no longer any need for meta-lies about the essential character of contemporary journalism (as a political apparatus screened by an increasingly-ludicrous pretense to disinterested ‘news’ curation). All research is interested, and its incentives are now openly formalized. The result is a germinal assassination market for hidden things. It targets enemy secrets. The information warfare that media have always been ceases to be promoted as anything else.

For the first time in over a century, it is now possible to envisage journalists making an honest living (by fulfilling private research contracts). This type of transition only goes in one direction. A piece of the future just came into view.

Comments

  1. The sex/scandal related crap up there right now is annoying me. Sure, it could be big, or it could be total crap.

    All the congressional insider trading crap is in a basement somewhere in D.C.- not on-line at all. We need a research going in there everyday to figure out what went down. Instead, the highest bounty is for a sex tape?

    It might be big, but they got to grow up first.

  2. Bill says:

    The guy who created this doesn’t realize that most people don’t care about facts. Humans are motivated by their emotions, and facts won’t change emotions for enough people.

    Human beings are lying machines. Our primary sense, sight, has great big holes in it where the optic nerve attaches to the retina (see Blind Spot). Our brains cover this up so efficiently most people have no idea what the Blund Spot is. This provides the essential clue to how human beings function day in and day out. We’re lying machines.

  3. Gaikokumaniakku says:

    “Our primary sense, sight, has great big holes in it where the optic nerve attaches to the retina (see Blind Spot). Our brains cover this up so efficiently most people have no idea what the Blund Spot is. This provides the essential clue to how human beings function day in and day out. We’re lying machines.”

    No, human bodies are lying machines. While our bodies are alive, we are spiritual amphibians.

    Humans are the ghosts in the machines, and the ghosts have a chance to aspire to truth.

  4. Gaikokumaniakku says:

    Back on topic:

    Am I the only one here who saw this and immediately thought that Timothy C. May and Jim Bell were behind it?

    Assassination market:

    An assassination market is a prediction market where any party can place a bet (using anonymous electronic money and pseudonymous remailers) on the date of death of a given individual, and collect a payoff if they “guess” the date accurately. This would incentivise assassination of individuals because the assassin, knowing when the action would take place, could profit by making an accurate bet on the time of the subject’s death. Because the payoff is for accurately picking the date rather than performing the action of the assassin, it is substantially more difficult to assign criminal liability for the assassination.

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