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Stephen Downes

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Part Five of the New Gatekeepers series I mentioned last week or so. Not the final installment - there will be a part six. According to the author, "because of the nature of information cascades, we find ourselves trusting people and stories simply because other people appear to trust them at all. There are enough independent thinkers out there to offer a useful amount of doubt. We just need to find them." Well, I have my answer to the problem of information cascades - reduce the size of the big spike and create a more distributed network.

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