But if you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the claims of others, and all individuals feel some common bond or shared fate that allows them to interact civilly, you create a group that ends up producing good reasoning as an emergent property of the social system. This is why it's so important to have intellectual & ideological diversity. Jonathan Haidt
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I agree with this quote. It's important to put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the claims of others, and all individuals feel some common bond or shared fate that allows them to interact civilly. If you put people together, like-minded individuals end up thinking similar things. They think like-minded things because they are like-minded.

This is why it's important to have intellectual & ideological diversity. To end up thinking like-minded things, people must be exposed to people who don't think like-minded things.

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