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> If you put 1000 dumb people together, they don't magically become smart? Do they not become smart*er* though?
by JFingleton 2y ago
> If you put 1000 dumb people together, they don't magically become smart?
Do they not become smart*er* though?
- computably 2y ago"Smarter" is too vague. A group can compensate for individual weaknesses or even converge on a hard-to-make prediction given sufficiently uncorrelated outputs; basically the idea behind ensemble models / wisdom of the crowds. But a group of 1000 dumb apes would never achieve categorically-above-ape intelligence, probably not even "genius" ape intelligence. Groups of unintelligent agents come with downsides as well, like the ant death spiral.
- coldtea 2y ago>But a group of 1000 dumb apes would never achieve categorically-above-ape intelligence And yet, here we are. A group of 1000 apes is large enough to have offspring and, given time, go through evolution.