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> We're on a tech forum known to have some of the best and brightest and visited by tech giants. If anyone can solve this problem, it is us. If we are the ones giving up, then who is there to make things right?

You think the world’s geniuses are hanging out here? The world’s brightest are here and you’re going to inspire them to solve what you frame should be a very high priority? There are much bigger problems to solve.

I really think your vanity is warping your perspective.

>>andsoi+(OP)
There are many extremely intelligent people who post here. There may not be Gandalf the Grey's here but there are dozens of tribal shamans.

>>andsoi+(OP)
> You think the world’s geniuses are hanging out here?

Maybe. But they at least frequent here.

> I really think your vanity is warping your perspective.

I think you undervalue yourself. I don't see myself as a big cog, but neither am I disillusioned to believe that just because I'm a cog in a much larger and more complex machine means that I have little to no importance. Lesser, but non-zero. Were I to have the vanity you suspect I have, I would not be calling for your support as I would use my ego to solve it alone. But I am not. I can't do this alone. Nor am I drumming up people to collect wood and assign tasks, but I am trying to help those find a longing for the endless immensity of the sea. I am trying to help us realize we aren't inconsequential and that together, we have meaningful power. The big cog may be shiny and may have a lot more power, but it is still supported by a thousand smaller ones.

I have no illusion that people here work for Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and so on. Do you really think differently?

>>andsoi+(OP)
The privacy of the world's populace sounds like a pretty big problem to me considering the damage that can be caused by that information getting into the wrong hands.