# kaal:claim:3808873-022

**Claim.** Because humans crave certainty as complexity grows exponentially, they favor dogmatic approaches, and dogmatic approaches to new problems are unlikely to yield the needed solutions while groupthink and other forms of dogma undermine society's collective intelligence and decentralized decision making.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- environments of exponentially growing complexity and uncertainty in the 21st century

**Source quote.**

> Dogmatic approaches to new problems are unlikely to present the much-needed solutions. Groupthink and other forms of dogma undermine society's collective intelligence and decentralized decision making.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization Neutralizers* (2021), VIII. Dogmatism, page 19

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

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**Failure mode.** Certainty Craving Dogmatism  (family: adoption-and-usability-barrier)

**Topics.** decentralization

**Keywords.** dogmatism, groupthink, collective-intelligence, decentralized-decision-making

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