Collective intelligence
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A subreddit turned into a flash mob of capital during the GameStop squeeze
Open-source volunteers built the internet's infrastructure for free and the incentive question still has no clean answer
Is a corporate open-source contribution a donated asset or a recruitment ad
Wikipedia runs on millions of volunteer editors and no editor-in-chief yet beats most encyclopedias
Stack Overflow accumulated two decades of answers and a chatbot emptied the queue in two years
Galton's ox: 787 fairgoers averaged closer to the true weight than any single expert in 1907
A committee beats its smartest member only if members commit to independent guesses first
Wisdom of crowds works until the crowd starts reading itself — independence is the fragile ingredient
Prediction markets outperform pundits until herding kicks in and everyone echoes everyone
The diversity trumps ability theorem: a crowd of moderate solvers can beat a room of experts
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