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by ethbr1 1027 days ago
My takeaway from social psych was that it was far easier and cheaper to convince 2 ignorant people than it was to change 1 educated person's mind.

Which boils majority democracy down to the median level of education.

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considering technology is evolving faster than humans, using technology to exploit the unchangeable stupidity of humans seems like the winning move
The only question that remains then perhaps is, whether this statement was from the inside or the outside.