Mar 09 2008
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“ We see tons of startups predicated on the so-called “wisdom of crowds”, an idea that’s been so thoroughly internalized by people, the actual premise, that crowds are wise, are rarely questioned. But maybe when the individuals within the crowd don’t know anything, the crowd doesn’t either.
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Questioning The Wisdom Of Crowds (via marco)
Anyone who is interested in ideas related to “the wisdom of crowds” or emergence theory should check out this episode of Radiolab. Suffice to say, the idea that “you can’t bake wisdom by cooking with ignorance”, as the article above says, is not necessarily what is observed in nature.