Original post from r/Futurology on Reddit:
I recently stumbled on this post and found the question to be very interesting and also relevant to the saga of GME investors.
The events of January 2021 were spectacular and exciting. Many people on the internet, for the most part on Reddit, had their attention drawn into this wild story that was unfolding, with what appeared to be accelerating momentum, until the incumbents colluded to prevent any further purchasing of shares of GME and other stocks. What has followed has been an interesting ordeal involving hundreds of thousands of individual investors who collectively believe in the idea, to put it simply, that there is way more to this story under the surface.
Many interesting and worthwhile things have been discovered, shared, discussed, dissected, and expanded upon, by these hundreds of thousands of individuals.
What do you call this group of people? I don’t mean terms like “ape”, I mean, like the original question above, what do you call an emergent superintelligence that arises when hundreds of thousands of individuals all work together towards a common objective?
AI
It’s the same process AI is trained with.
A thousand smoothes think random things and the 10% of the apes that can spell derivative throw out the dumbest 90% of the ideas. Rinse repeat