4. The Question How can people and computers be connected so that — collectively— they act more intelligently than any person, group, or computer has ever done before?
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7. Every activity must have genes to answer four questions What How Who Why Strategy Structure (Grouping) Process (Linking) Incentives (Alignment) Staffing
8. Example: Genetic structure of Linux What How Who Why Who Crowd Hierarchy (Torvalds et al) What Creates software modules Decide which modules to include How As a collaboration As a hierarchy Why For fun, reputation, etc. For fun, reputation, etc
9. Who? Who does the activity? Hierarchy One or a few people from a small, preselected group Selecting modules for Linux Crowd Anyone who wants to in a large group Editing Wikipedia
10. Who? Who does the activity? Hierarchy One or a few people from a small, preselected group Selecting modules for Linux Crowd Anyone who wants to in a large group Editing Wikipedia
Give you a sense of the landscape of all the different things out there in the world of CI. But, as you’ll see, I think an even better metaphor for what we need to do is mapping the “genomes”, not of individual organisms like humans, but of superorganisms that exhibit collective intelligence