If you take people of average smartness.
And they talk to each other.
And by talking to each other they combine their minds.
Is that combined mind/person smarter?
If you take people of average smartness.
And they talk to each other.
And by talking to each other they combine their minds.
Is that combined mind/person smarter?
In my experience, as long as both people are working toward a shared goal and are acting in good faith, two heads is almost always better than one. Every person has a completely unique library of knowledge that can result in large differences in how different people approach the same situation. Our greatest strength as humans is our ability to share knowledge and quickly adapt to new information. Working together for a better outcome is pretty much biologically hardwired into us.
Not only that, but a lot of constructive thinking goes in to just formulating thoughts so they can be communicated. We’ve all had that sense of “that sounds stupid when I say it out loud”, for example.
That makes sense. One forgets that such a thing is possible here in the wilds of the internet.
Yeah, the Internet can be a very uncooperative place. People are much better IRL since you don’t end up with such a high concentration of the most obnoxious individuals