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