There's nobody to talk to. People used to write long letters to each other, consider them deeply, and reply thoroughly.

If you could find a small band of people to talk to, and force all communication to be through hand written notes, I think you'd have something.

As it is, nobody wants to think deeply about anyone else's problem - they want a quick answer that aligns with the correct one that's in the book.

Finding the exact group of people who are amateurs at a similar level who can grow in some subject together sounds great, but I think we'll find this when we get an AI that you can get good answers out of and can send it clippings from a book or newspaper and it will correctly understand the same way a good teacher would.