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Re:100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born by layer8 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @09:00AM (#39369817)
Within a group of n people, everything else being equal, why would you expect to be able to steer its behavior by more than 1/nth?
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Re:100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born by hoseja on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @09:04AM (#39369858)
But that's the problem with emergence, you don't even get the 1/n. You get zero, or very near it.
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Re:100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born by layer8 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @09:24AM (#39370087)
Well, you had the agency to read HN today, to comment here, and to choose the contents of your comment. So I’m not sure what you’re getting at, beyond the well-trodden free-will debate.
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Re:100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born by jgilias on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @09:15AM (#39369991)
I think you misunderstand what emergence is. It’s really not an argument about if you have agency or not in your individual actions.
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