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Human beings aren't great at the whole hive mind thing. We miscommunicate, have opinions, argue, and do various other stupid things. Programmers will never wo
by decker 11y ago
Human beings aren't great at the whole hive mind thing. We miscommunicate, have opinions, argue, and do various other stupid things. Programmers will never work like ants unless the entire dev team consists of a star-wars like clone army.
- bitL 11y agoStudy how women are signalling their status in their social circle instead of ants ;-)
- danharaj 11y agohttp://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1933734 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1933734 The Superorganism Account of Human Sociality: How and When Human Groups are Like Beehives Abstract: Biologists call highly cooperative and socially integrated animal groups such as beehives and ant colonies “superorganisms”. In such species, the colony acts like an organism despite each animal’s physical individuality. This paper frames human sociality through the superorganisms metaphor by systematically reviewing the superorganismic features of human psychology. These features include: (1) mechanisms to integrate individual units, (2) mechanisms to achieve unity of action, (3) low levels of heritable within-group variation, (4) a common fate, and (5) mechanisms to resolve conflicts of interest in the collective’s favor. It is concluded that human beings have a capacity to partly and flexibly display each of these superorganismic properties. Group identification is a key mechanism that activates human superorganismic properties, and threats to the group a key activating condition. This metaphor organizes diverse aspects of human psychology (e.g., normative conformity, social identity processes, religion, and the “rally-around-the-flag” reflex) into a coherent framework.
- lifeisstillgood 11y agoSo contributors to a code base are a super organism? Interesting