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.”

  • masquenox@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    9 个月前

    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?

    • Natanael@slrpnk.net
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      9 个月前

      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

      • masquenox@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        9 个月前

        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.