Why we’re still living with with a centuries-old mistake about collective intelligence

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• End with: implications for how libertariain/now authoritarian tech masters have framed what knowledge is. Still mystical at its core.
• Actually, that last point is an important part of where that case goes: the mysticism of it has led to a situation where only right wing edgelords have much of a take on it, or are the ones wielding power to us it. People like me, we just write books about it! See also Geoff Mulgan.