Diversity

A wide range of ideas, either within a single mind or across a collection of minds.

A single mind contains more diversity than Earth's entire biosphere. The diversity that matters for Progress is diversity of ideas — different conjectures, explanations, and criticisms — not surface-level demographic categories.

Connections

• •True diversity is diversity of ideas, not categories
• •Essential for Error Correction — more ideas means more potential solutions
• •A single Universal Explainer mind contains vast diversity
• •Undermined by Bigotry — which dismisses ideas based on source
• •Flourishes in dynamic societies with traditions of criticism
• •Reduced by anti-rational memes that enforce conformity
• •Related to Culture — healthy cultures maintain diverse ideas