To swarm or not to swarm is about cohesion vs resilience.
- To swarm or not to swarm is about cohesion vs resilience.
- Swarms can be enormously adaptive systems.
- They require limited coordination but can have powerful emergent results.
- Top-down approaches give cohesive results.
- All of the actions add up to more than the sum of their parts because they are all the part of something larger.
- Bottom-up approaches give resilience.
- All of the actions add up to more than the sum of their parts because as long as one actor randomly covers an option, the entire swarm is covered.
- The swarm approach works well if no individual agent in the collective can have a downside that ruins it for everyone.
- If one group cutting corners could harm everyone, then you need cohesion more than resilience.