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'Humans face enough natural challenges, Mill thought, that to cut ourselves off from any part of the available pool of brainpower costs society timely and insightful solutions to our problems—solutions that may be better than the existing ones.’ —from 'John Stuart Mill’s Philosophy of Equality’ on Farnam Street blog, https://fs.blog/2021/03/john-stuart-mills-equality/

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The context is interesting but the best thing about this article is the concept of dissensus and why it is so necessary. https://www.resilience.org/stories/2008-12-18/why-dissensus-matters/

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