You’ve heard this principle -: Don’t mistake the map for the territory. When you’re an agent of a swarm intelligence, there’s a similar principle -: Don’t mistake the ant for the anthill.
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This is a really easy mistake to make. You’re on here. You encounter idiot after idiot flooding your attention with inanities. Trending topics seem nightmarishly vapid. The whole thing *must* be stupid, right?
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This is like being a transistor in a CPU complaining that you’re surrounded by dumb idiots who only want to talk about square waves. The emergent layers are not computing the same thing you’re talking about. Occasionally you’ll get an “Aha!” lightning bolt from emergent layer
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The people who make the ant/anthill mistake have a failure of the imagination. Just because they’re used to Industrial Age organizations that are at best only as smart as their smartest individuals, they assume systems that are smarter than their human components cannot exist.
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this hurts
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Think of it as liberating
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