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> Consensus isn't always preferable. See religion.

Any examples where it's not preferable?

Wisdom-of-Crowds coin-jar experiment: independent guesses are noisy, but their average reliably approximates the true count, showing group aggregation beats most individuals.





Gas station on a one way street with respect to which side your gas tank is on.



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