dmh_phoenix comments on Lonely Dissent - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 December 2007 04:23AM

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Comment author: dmh_phoenix 07 October 2009 02:01:32AM 2 points [-]

Certainly, dissent, or "difference" in general is "an emergent phenomenon" -- but what counts, and what <i>can</i> be "part of the design", is how the group chooses to treat people who are different! For example, keeping the "special ed" kids in regular school not only means the educational system stays aware of them and their issues, but it means that the "normal" kids get regular exposure to neurodiverse kids, and at least occasionally have to communicate with them.