collective intelligence

Collective Intelligence for Deep Learning - A Survey of Recent Developments

When you, as a giant collective of cells, go spend a day boxing, you will come home and say “this was great – I achieved a bunch of social goals, I achieved some personal development goals, excellent”.

Nobody asked your cells and tissues whether they wanted to be killed by mechanical damage and then cleared out by the immune system in bruises. That is how collectives work. You gain capabilities at the collective level but no one may be watching for the welfare of the individual parts. We as humans, who have a huge degree of agency in the individual, may or may not want to adopt some of these policies. Certainly in the political arena that’s been tried a number of times in history, and it always works the same way – disaster. So, I think that we need to be looking for optimal policies for scaling collective intelligence, but not necessarily copying what biology does because I don’t think biology is tracking all of the values that we should hold sacred.

A system becomes harmonic to the degree that the agents perceive themselves as being part of a larger agent that is more important than their personal agency. Collective agency requires personal sacrifice.

https://thoughtforms.life/some-thoughts-on-memory-goals-and-universal-hacking/