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...n arises because no matter how noisy the signal, if it's broad enough and has a consistent bias, a clear macro scale phenomena will emerge.[ho][hp] It emerges automatically and inexorably. This is the same power of amplification algorithms. When...
...you can. This is because of the pooled data. A noisy but broad data stream with consistent bias. The broader the stream, the more effectively the signal can be extracted and distilled into a valuable signal. That signal can then be used to add v...
Most ranking algorithms are "amplification algorithms" They find small but consistent biases in the data that reveal human intent, and then amplify those biases to help scale insights to other users. For example, high volition users, for th...
...at 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 th...
...o try the same thing. If it's a genetic mutation, that genetic mutation gives a consistent bias to success, so it becomes more and more represented in future generations. So the system is jiggling constantly trying everything, it's just the only...
...os. Consensus mechanisms can only give innovative results if there's a specific consistent bias in all of the components. Imagine telling a room of creative people to individually come up with wacky ideas. Then you take all of the ideas and aver...
...entroid by default. You, the prompter, must give them a particular direction, a consistent bias that allows it to innovate in a direction away from the centroid.
...nking better than any individual human could do. It does that by extracting the consistent bias in massive amounts of noisy signal flowing through it; the cacophonous actions and decisions of a wide swath of humanity. But it requires a constant ...
...arm. As long as the swarm subsets particles (that is, the ones it keeps) with a consistent bias, the aggregate vector of the swarm will become coherent and strong. You don't need active selection by some judgment; if the unfit particles are sele...
...of how big the trend is is how consistent is the movement? Does everyone have a consistent bias, or is it mostly random noise?
...ctions didn't matter. For example, imagine every agent in a system has a small, consistent bias towards a certain direction. For each individual agent, the bias is swamped by the overall specific details of the agent. That means the bias in invi...