I'll borrow this... straw man? to make a simpler point: > social psychologist Gustave Le Bon, tried to explain crowd behaviour as a paralysis of the brain; hyp

I'll borrow this... straw man? to make a simpler point: > social psychologist Gustave Le Bon, tried to explain crowd behaviour as a paralysis of the brain; hypnotised by the group, the individual becomes the slave of unconscious impulses. ‘He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will,’ he wrote in 1895. ‘Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian… a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.’ One could just as easily say that individual behavior is paralysis of the brain, hypnotized by the culture. If someone is more 'cultivated' as an individual, it's simply because he's had much more practice in that form- a group of people who act as one is not only possible, and quite impressive, but it takes work- willpower and practice. This kind of article, making all kinds of guesses based on little bits of psychology research, and presenting them as facts... This is supposed to be an illuminated tech community, so I'll say it straight: When psychology meets up with the other sciences in the form of ai research, bs like this will finally be recognized as grossly oversimplistic garbage. I give the article a C-minus: trying to sound knowledgeable without promoting much useful information.