I agree that all of this could be useful in many situations.
I just suspect there may be no person fit for this role and willing to take it, and that choosing an unfit person could be harmful. Essentially, people who are sufficiently sane and uncontroversial, are probably not interested in this role, because they believe they have better things to do. Otherwise, they could have already taken it.
All it would need at the beginning would be to privately ask other “rationalist celebrities” whether they think that X is a good idea and whether they are willing to endorse it publicly, and if they say yes, post X in the Main with the list of celebrities who endorse it. If the same person would do this 5 times in the row, people would automatically start accepting them as the leader. Most wouldn’t notice if for the sixth time the endorsements from the other “rationalist celebrities” would be absent, as long as none of them opposes the post directly.
I agree that all of this could be useful in many situations.
I just suspect there may be no person fit for this role and willing to take it, and that choosing an unfit person could be harmful. Essentially, people who are sufficiently sane and uncontroversial, are probably not interested in this role, because they believe they have better things to do. Otherwise, they could have already taken it.
All it would need at the beginning would be to privately ask other “rationalist celebrities” whether they think that X is a good idea and whether they are willing to endorse it publicly, and if they say yes, post X in the Main with the list of celebrities who endorse it. If the same person would do this 5 times in the row, people would automatically start accepting them as the leader. Most wouldn’t notice if for the sixth time the endorsements from the other “rationalist celebrities” would be absent, as long as none of them opposes the post directly.