Swarms of 'agents' can come to better conclusions than than a single very smart agent.

· Bits and Bobs 6/23/25
  • Swarms of 'agents' can come to better conclusions than than a single very smart agent.
    • This is also true even if it's the same model for each member of the swarm and for the single very smart agent.
    • Perhaps the reason for this is the same reason that boundaries emerge in every complex adaptive system.
      • Within a boundary, signals propagate like a broadcast.
      • That means that the larger the boundary volume (the more emitters contained) and the higher the rate of information emitted, the more cacophonous the background noise.
      • Everything within the boundary coheres to the centroid average point; things that are away from the centroid are impossible to hear.
      • Boundaries allow different regions to have different centroids and less cacophony which allows more diverse ideas to be tried before being drowned out.
      • The good ideas can then spread out through the boundaries once found.
    • The thoughts within one model/mind are similar; a cacophony of information sloshing around.
    • When you have to distill the thought into a stream of language to transmit to another model / mind, you have to collapse the wave function into a specific information stream.
    • This distillation can allow different perspectives.
    • The distillation is where the OODA loop emerges.
    • The OODA loop is where interaction between different things emerges.
    • Emergence happens because of the distillation to communicate.

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