Is there a wisdom in crowds, or are we all heading over the cliff like lemmings?

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Things mentioned in this podcast:
- The Great Battle of Fire and Light, Wait But Why https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/fire-light.html
- ‘Sourdough’, xkcd https://m.xkcd.com/2296/
- Mass panics of 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/29/panic-at-los-angeles-airport-lax-after-noise-mistaken-for-gunfire
- Measuring the collective unconscious http://people.tamu.edu/~stevesmith/SmithMemory/Rosen_et_al_1991.pdf

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