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Comment author: ChristianKl 29 October 2015 11:52:19PM 1 point [-]

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

What do you mean by "reasonably good"? Hans Rosling makes the point that the cognitive media elite is worse informed than monkeys in the zoo when it comes to the development of Africa: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_and_ola_rosling_how_not_to_be_ignorant_about_the_world

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