Andy Bromberg: The wisdom of crowds is giving way to the “wisdom of communities.” In a world of ever-greater complexity, no one person can possibly make sense of all the signals and all the noise — from a single, static vantage point. A networked group is required to adapt to this new world... People are no longer being polled in isolation but rath... See more
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
Every statistic you come across, everything you read in a textbook, everything you learn from parents or teachers, everything you see or read in the news or on social media, every tenet of conventional wisdom—it’s all indirect knowledge. That’s why perhaps the most important skill of a skilled thinker is knowing when to trust.
Tim Urban • What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
Rory Sutherland on why group decision making is often worse than personal judgement https://t.co/Gj6CRLLF40
A gem form the LessWrong community: 'Humans are not automatically strategic.'
"A large majority of otherwise smart people spend time doing semi-productive things, when there are massively productive opportunities untapped." https://t.co/5eR7t5YXLN