The problem with consensus is not the collaboration, it's the lack of curation.

2025-07-28 · Bits and Bobs 7/28/25

The problem with consensus is not the collaboration, it's the lack of curation.
- Collaboration is good--because you can curate and distill a higher quality output.
- But consensus is "collaboration with no curation".
- You get mush: the average of distinct individually viable perspectives is unlikely to be viable itself.

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