Detailed Plan

The Shared Reality platform is here to upgrade our information ecosystem. This proposal will help get the most reliable information into the system as quickly as possible, so that the public can live in a shared reality around such important topics as: Was the 2020 US presidential election stolen? Was there evidence of obstruction and collusion in the Mueller Report? Does Donald Trump suffer from Narcissistic Personality Disorder? Were we all lied into the Iraq War and, if so, was that a crime? Was 9/11 an inside job? Are we currently bring brought through the process of Active Measures and towards Civil War in the United States? Are vaccines and autism related? Etc, etc…

Disinformation can only survive because of two defects in our information ecosystem:

1. The public cannot ask questions and get meaningful answers. Because of that, large groups of people can never become satisfied with the prevailing narratives they have been brought to distrust (and which may, after all, be untrue). Right now, the conversation between the media and the people is strictly one-way. Joe Arpaio said, "You ain't gonna see any damage control" to counter his false claims about Obama's birth certificate. And, there have not been any. In 2019, 56% of Republicans polled believed that Obama was not born in Hawaii. This is a threat to our republic, and to our lives. In a society where we all know that we're being lied to and we just can't get on the same page about who it is, the existing information infrastructure isn't nearly good enough.

2. When the public wants to know about a topic, it doesn't hear from specialists directly. It hears from pundits and media conglomerates. This is inefficient, costly, and dangerous. Enough with the dynamic of being presented with competing narratives - for decades! The public wants to know what 97% of climate scientists believe. The public should have the ability to raise the funds necessary to find them, vet them, and ask them - in detail - what they believe about each idea around the issue of climate change.

That's what the Shared Reality platform is all about. One key step in fulfilling our mission of bringing the best information to the public is: incentivizing specialists to providing that information.

This proposal is meant to raise the funds needed to design and create a token on Cardano. Then, that token will be used to reward specialists (and others) for submitting information to the Shared Reality platform. This will build documents of unparalleled neutrality and completeness on any controversial topic.