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Well, I don't think mass-consensus is actually a thing. But whenever power is placed in the hand of very few people, they tend to become tyrants. And even if they do, there's only so much a handful of people can do, so making it open source will make it faster to spot issues and fix them. Probably why crowd-sourcing works so well now, taxis, hotels, content, politics, now money, hell, even gene sequencing... all much more successful when it's not planned top-down.

So, I'm definitely no commie, but I'm not an anarchist either, some general direction should still be maintained. Elon Musk's AI kinda follows this idea, so there's that :)