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melling on July 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Elon Musk: The Man With His Mind in the Future

I agree that coordinating an army of people is difficult. Still I think more can be accomplished. There are lots of problems that need to be solved and I still think some problems should be solvable by groups of tens of thousands rather than one visionary. The next level of crowd sourcing?

yaix on July 13, 2012 [–]

Those groups would spend 95% of time in redundant discussions.

There is a reason why Linux and other large projects came up with the "BDFL" to cut discussion short at some point and actually get things done.

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