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Graph Minds - by Venkatesh Rao - Contraptions

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Or, how can we learn to stop worrying and love the hive mind?

This is part of the Graph Minds Notebook series It is a strange thing: we acknowledge the generally social nature of our species, but resist acknowledging the specifically social nature of our intelligence. Traditional accounts of human sociality focus on aspects like shared care of offspring, collectivized security from predators, game-theoretic cooperation around shared resources, “social contracts” to foster peaceable coexistence, and so on. In these accounts, collective thinking behaviors are treated as epiphenomena at best, and pathologies at worst. We like the idea of dissolving…

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