First I'll define what a wisdom booster is so that readers know what I'm referring to. In the past I may have used termed like "exocortex" but this term comes from Kurzweil and is a slightly different concept. A wisdom booster is a mechanism which provides a decision support and augmentation layer on top of for instance a blockchain.

The Wisdom Layer must be built
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I don't think it's enough just to have a crowd. I don't think it's enough to just connect a bunch of people and let the base instincts take over.  I think that one of the main problems an individual faces is involuntary ignorance. Involuntary ignorance which may be the result of disinformation from foreign governments which prefer "useful idiots", or involuntary ignorance which serves some political agenda of a local government.

In other words, ignorance is convenient when it benefits the national security of certain governments in the world. The problem is that for the person who is in the position of being involuntarily ignorant it is they who must live with the consequences and live through the necessarily experiences (good or bad) which come with that ignorance.

Wisdom in my opinion is actually quite rare. It can take a whole lifetime for a person to become wise and then in many cases the wisdom is not passed down from generation to generation. In addition, the wisdom from previous generations may no longer apply to future generations due to the fact that technology warps the playing field to the point where the games may be unrecognizable from one generation to the next. It is true that some things will remain the same but the details and mechanisms keep changing as technology evolves.

One of the central ideas behind most of my posts on Steemit is the idea of self empowerment. My own agenda is simply personal growth (to become a better person over time). It impedes my growth as a person to be involuntarily ignorant so I am personally motivated to find workarounds. In my own search for workarounds I identified that the brain is the major bottleneck. It is also the brain (and it's biases, flaws, vulnerabilities) which social engineers,  companies, and other organizations tend to exploit. The scammer uses confidence tricks, the governments of the world might leverage ideology or faith or love, the companies might leverage greed, but there is always some human vulnerability involved.

These human vulnerabilities probably will not go away just because there are wisdom boosters just like computers, spreadsheets and calculators didn't remove these sorts of problems. The point is I do not think there should be any limit on the potential effectiveness that a human being should be able to achieve if they are willing to make the necessary sacrifices in their life to reach those achievements. In order for persons or organizations to make high quality decisions it is necessary to have access to high quality information. This means decision support for the masses, it means predictive analytics and data science for the masses, it means machine learning for the masses, and only a blockchain can democratize access.

At the same time I recognize that governments currently benefit from the ignorance. When people believe in nonsense then it is easier for some governments to protect their national interests. People believing in hoaxes, or in disinfo, or in "fake news" is almost always to benefit one agenda or another agenda. If a person just wants to live their best life and does not care about these agendas then they will have a very difficult time if all the news is slanted toward one agenda or another.

The reason I get excited about projects such as Tauchain (TML) or Enigma (and Endor), or iExec, is because these projects are the main projects which allow for personal empowerment via democratization of machine learning, decision support, predictive analytics, and more. When certain people preach that young people need to be responsible or take "personal responsibility" what must be understood is that in order for anyone to truly be responsible they must be on the path of wisdom. Wisdom promotes responsibility because it provides the reasons for those responsible behaviors.

A more decentralized world where more decisions are pushed to the edges of the graph is a world where the wisdom must be diffused at a much greater rate. Effective wisdom diffusion in my opinion can only take place by creating wisdom boosting technologies to evolve along with decentralization. If we only have decentralization with maximum disinformation guiding the decisions then we have very limited capacity for wisdom. If we have wisdom boosting technologies then we can do some things which could allow for sophisticated self governance or decentralized governance.

Some examples of what would be possible for an individual with access to wisdom boosting tech:

- An individual will be able to monitor the sentiment of any demographic or community with ease in order to support their decisions or to guide their public speech.
- An individual will be able to ask pertinent questions about their customers, readers, constituents, or community members in order to do analytics and receive the answers. This should include predictive analytics (what do my people want?).
- An individual should be able to do a knowledge search.
- An individual should be able to do simulations and leverage deep learning/machine learning.
- An individual should be able to receive moral advice or at minimum be able to track the moral sentiment of different demographics such as their customers, stakeholders, and so on, so that their products and services can remain in alignment.

These are just some basic examples and of course there are many many more but the point is that when an individual cannot do these things then they are at a disadvantage at best and self destructive at worst. Just as a business must track sales metrics (data), a business also has to track sentiment, has to track trends, has to do much much more. 

Wisdom of course is also about the deeper questions about reality. An individual needs to be able to keep up with the latest consensus of science on different topics. A curated newsletter at minimum but preferably it should leverage machine learning to automatically populate a self improving curated briefing in the form of a blog. As an individual I should be able to express the topics I am interested in and have machines send me highly curated facts and breakthroughs on those subjects in a manner which is relevant to what I'm trying to do. In other words, a research assistant which can read and digest millions of scientific papers to curate them and direct my attention only to the relevant results.