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Collective intelligence or collective stupidity?

2022-03-11T13:45:15+00:00September 23rd, 2019|

We often talk about collective intelligence, or the way we can take advantage of each contributor’s knowledge in order to find solutions that we would be unable to find individually. But we also talk about the dangers of a crowd. We see people in a group behaving in a way that contradicts how they would usually behave, in opposition to their values. How come the group sometimes brings out the best in us and in other cases reveals our worst instincts? Let’s start with this Native American story. An old man tells his grandson that we each have two wolves fighting [...]

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