Two people can talk themselves into doing something neither would do alone. This force has a dark side. It drives bullying and, for large n, mobs. But it also produces some amazing things.
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"Collaboration" is too weak a word for this. It doesn't capture the miraculous way in which it violates conservation of morale.
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Twitter has turned out to be a great way to channel the dark side of this force. Is it possible to create something that channels the good side of it? I don't know if there's an answer to that. But if there is, it would be one hell of a startup idea.
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Arguably GitHub and GitLab are this for code. So if there is an answer, better Twitter and more general GitHub/GitLab converge on it.
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At this point the YC partners are thinking "Noooo! Thousands more applications for collaboration apps!" Collaboration apps are indeed the base state of YC applications. But maybe that's because everyone senses there's something to be discovered here.
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"Mindmeld"
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“Conspiration” is closer than collaboration, perhaps. “We conspired and we succeeded”. Its etymology suggests what we breath together. It suggests being close enough to one another, but also seems to scale up to greatness or horror.
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Thinking about this made me remember “Fear and Wonder”, by Dimmu Borgir. It’s an instrumental piece that features a beautiful arrangement of stringshttps://open.spotify.com/track/5zrvqjiwD8dinuOpJAnP58?si=ZmGchNXVSeOeswjtA9B86A …
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Cohesion makes a civilization.
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The banality of evil
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Swarming, flocking, or susurration = how large N coordinate
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Your observation is that Metcalfe's Law cuts both ways. As with programming languages, I suspect that constraining outcomes (eg to his Twitter) also limits the computational completeness of the swarm. i.e. a safer swarm is a less powerful one (for both good and bad)
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