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We talk about collective intelligences all the time, naturally. We talk about what "the market" wants. We talk about what "your body" wants. These are responding to the whole emergent sys...
...the suitor be conscious? The idea seems immediately ridiculous. But perhaps the collective intelligence of the swarm, an emergent force greater than the sum of its parts, is "conscious." If it is, then many things might properly be considered conscious....
...t's good enough?" The "given that others liked this" is the compounding loop, a collective intelligence feedback loop. It allows people with little effort to go "... yeah, sure." Which is less effort than considering it from a standstill. But that's why...
...cord medium for Midjourney wasn't a random choice. Midjourney is about emergent collective intelligence. Having use in public allowed it to feel effervescent, alive, inspiring. It also allowed best practices to be discovered by the swarm and propagate.
...t it's valuable and should be persisted. Swarms of votes over time is a kind of collective intelligence to smooth it down into its core, useful components.
...er differential gets larger. Swarms, like organizations, are a form of emergent collective intelligence, and can be "smarter" than any individual member.
...hy did "Twitch Plays Pokemon" lead to coherent results? Because the swarm has a collective intelligence weighted coverage of options. The swarm of humans acts like a probability distribution on the next steps that could be great. As long as most people ...
A lot of technical systems feel inhuman. Prosocial systems bloom with emergent collective intelligence. There is intrinsic value in knowing other people were involved to create the value; and that your actions improve the system for the collective, too...
...es have become exponentially more capable in the information age because of our collective intelligence and ability to coordinate. Even generally-intelligent agents face limits when operating as individuals; groups of agents can accomplish far more."
Web 2.0 was about collective intelligence. It was built out of the desperation after the Web 1.0 bubble burst. A collective energy to build something together. Web 2.0 came out of many techno...
...more intention you put in, the more it can help you. The enchantment comes from collective intelligence; the combined indirect wisdom of everyone using their vaults around the world. Even though everyone's data is totally private; the overall system can...
...s. What are the "System 3" models? Systems that plug into the emergent, online, collective intelligence of society in an open-ended way.
...uality of the LLM sets the ceiling of what's possible. An ecosystem of emergent collective intelligence, lubricated by LLMs, is a super-linear business. The quality of the LLM sets the floor of what is possible. The floor that the collective intelligenc...
...lusion of breadth because even though no one human brain can comprehend it, the collective intelligence of many brains can handle pieces of it. But LLMs are capable of much broader awareness than human brains, structurally. Not a multiplier better, but ...
...as made intelligently by a single actor but was actually decided by the swarms' collective intelligence.
...re the trail is found, and won't have to double back at all. This clever little collective intelligence mechanism is one reason Hash House Harriers are such popular and enduring social groups.
...ion without top-down coherence is cheap! A flood-fill of possibility. Swarms of collective intelligence. You can get eventual, emergent coherence easily... the tradeoff is you can't predict what form it will take. As humans we tend to prefer "certainty"...
An ecosystem is intelligent. It's a different kind of intelligence: collective intelligence. The hotter it runs, the more the ecosystem can do, the more it can think. Swarm / collective intelligence is kind of alien to us ("where do the deci...