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   "text": "A healthy expertise will have near unanimous consensus on every evidence of work validation pool, and that very unanimity creates an impediment to development, because honest members risk their stakes by voting for untested changes.",
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   "text": "For contentious proposals involving genuine legal or technological paradigm shifts, participants must weigh the long-term value of a contrarian view against immediate slashing risk, so only strongly evidenced minority positions survive.",
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