“The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.” (attributed to Terry Pratchett)
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FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.world 9 months ago
There’s an old proverb I like about this: a person is smart but people are dumb.
People en masse tend to be dumber than they are apart. I think you’re comparing yourself to the faceless masses. It’s much more humbling to try comparing yourself to someone you respect (but don’t do it as a “I’m not as good as them” thing, only do it as a “goals to maybe achieve one day” thing to avoid accidentally trashing your self esteem)
JanEckhoff@lemmy.world 9 months ago
jj4211@lemmy.world 9 months ago
None of us is as dumb as all of us.
masquenox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
a person is smart but people are dumb.
Whoever says that pretty much qualifies as dumb in my book.
Collective deision-making is superior.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
It depends. Group psychology like mass delusion is well known. Collective decision making works in specific circumstances where the majority have some idea about what the problem is.
masquenox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Collective decision making works in specific circumstances where the majority have some idea about what the problem is.
So you’re saying that the only obstacle to effective collective decision-making is the withholdiing of relevant information?
Natanael@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
I think you meant “the ability to learn” because you’re not getting better answers from groups of non-physicists about the geometries of black holes than from individual experts regardless of how much information you give them
piecat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Just linking to an article about collective decision making isn’t really that helpful without quoting the article for your points.
So that article you posted talks about animal behavior, and that an economic view on collective decision making is a good approach for animal behavior.
As motivated in the Introduction, our review has focused primarily on an economic view on collective decision-making. The economic view is a staple of behavioural ecology, and motivates the tools of optimal decision theory for the study of animal behaviour.
Nowhere did they make the conclusion that collecting decision making is superior, especially in the context of humans.
masquenox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
especially in the context of humans.
Were you not aware that humans are animals?
YaBoyMax@programming.dev 9 months ago
Tommy Lee Jones says this in Men in Black, no idea if it was coined before that though.
gerbler@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I choose to believe Agent K came up with it.