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In previous posts, we’ve seen how complex emergent behavior can arise in multi-agent systems , and how distributed cognition can emerge from environmental feedback . This led me to conclude that superintelligence is arguably more likely to emerge from a multi-agent system as opposed to in a single God-like superintelligent model, what I called the emergent superintelligence hypothesis .…
In part 1 , we discussed the relationship between individual agent incentives, the environment, and emergent system-level phenomena. In this post we’ll conclude our discussion on emergence by understanding regulation , the process of negative feedback from the environment, which we’ll see is the key to the emergence of collective intelligence. This framing suggests that regulated…
We observe emergent behavior in stunningly diverse parts of our world, ranging from collective animal behavior to economic systems. Emergence (as defined by Wikipedia ) “occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their own, and emerge only when they interact in a wider whole”. In other words, emergent (or system-level) outcomes are more than…
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