At risk of over-generalizing, the way you phrased this reminded me of the prior knowledgebase grand projects like Cyc. As a fence-sitting skeptic, I sometimes

At risk of over-generalizing, the way you phrased this reminded me of the prior knowledgebase grand projects like Cyc. As a fence-sitting skeptic, I sometimes wonder if all "solve it with scale" projects are just using different syntax to reproduce an analogue of the experiment we're continuously executing as a whole civilization. Can our joint artifacts and social systems understand something more than we do? Can they exhibit any emergent rationality that exceeds the participants? Or are all these systems fundamentally a chaotic and contradictory mix? Is the understanding and rationality always an illusion, only coherent in localized extracts? Does it always need us (the homunculi) to monitor and steer it, fundamentally limited by the understanding of our best individual minds?