A default diverging system tears itself apart.
- A default diverging system tears itself apart.
- Actors who are not aligned take actions that benefit themselves, not the collective.
- A default-converging system builds itself up.
- The actors are pulling in the same direction, accreting something larger that benefits the collective.
- The agents don't even need to intentionally optimize for the collective, it can just emerge if everyone's individual incentives happen to align.
- This is one of the things that makes Wikipedia tick, for example.