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These closed groups seem to be too inbred, too like minded. For some things that's probably ok and good, but for creative solutions, I find I need to hear it al
by swader999 4y ago
These closed groups seem to be too inbred, too like minded. For some things that's probably ok and good, but for creative solutions, I find I need to hear it all and see it from many angles.
- OkayPhysicist 4y agoThe trick is to find a broad enough frontier that you still have a mix of discourse, while still excluding people who will tend towards unproductive garbage. For example, my service organization at university: As a whole, the group leaned firmly socialist (selecting for people who were enthused about feeding the homeless tends to do that), but the firm "someone will veto this person's membership nomination" line was somewhere around the middle of the Democratic party: "We need to fix things, but maybe that doesn't require revolution". Thus we ended up with a perfectly wide range of discourse, between the just-left of Obama and the anarchists, without including people who were fundamentally at odds with the groups mission of affecting positive change.