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Daniel_Burfoot comments on Does the Internet lead to good ideas spreading quicker? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 29 October 2015 06:07:24PM 5 points [-]

Now members of the cognitive elite are, or so I claim, reasonably good at distinguishing between good and bad ideas.

Not if they're mind-killed by politics, and in a democracy, almost everything is related to politics in one way or another.