A social sifting process is where a swarm of intentional human activity leads to macro-scale emergent phenomena.

· Bits and Bobs 3/31/25
  • A social sifting process is where a swarm of intentional human activity leads to macro-scale emergent phenomena.
    • No individual human's decision matters that much, the emergent process does.
    • In what conditions does a social sifting process create more quality?
      • When there's a consistent bias to the collection actions so the average of the noisy input leads to the bias popping out sharply.
      • The bias can be things like "many people seeing this would find it useful."
    • A social sifting process is already basically an AI[rr].
      • Swarm intelligence.
    • The emergent outcome can be wonderful and better than what any individual could have produced; or a terrible hellscape that no individual wants and yet everyone gets trapped in.

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