A network can encourage truth-seeking only in fields that add power without threatening its founding story, and so grow very powerful while its core beliefs go unexamined.

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  A related problem is that an information network may allow and even encourage people to search for truth, but only in specific fields that help generate power without threatening the social order. The result can be a very powerful network that is singularly lacking in wisdom.

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