To clarify here, I don’t feel like I’m significantly smarter than most people, but I feel like people have a hard time doing any sort of thinking about stuff. Especially when it comes to verifying “facts.”

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    11 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.

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      11 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.

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        11 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?

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          11 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

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            11 months ago

            individual experts

            Sooooo… are you suggesting that individual physicists would be better off working in isolation? That must be what you are suggesting… since nothing that I have said suggested anything about groups of people making collective decisions about matters that are completely arbitrary.