Fixing the Social Media Crisis
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
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The Wisdom of Crowds
There were two patterns that we see throughout human history. It's much easier to watch football with your friends if they all support the same socker team. We also have this notion that perhaps there's some kind of cognitive limit to the number of people whom we can usefully build relationships with. So in your view, what's the problem with taking these well established patterns and processes and tubo charging them a little? James sirwickie wrote this great book called the wisdom of crowds. Rt,. And it was based on a theory that was espoused a hundred years before the book was written, by sir francis galton, which is that crowds are wiser than individuals or experts.
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