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?
Yes, a pair is far easier to keep balanced in my pack.I’d say they’re twice as experienced, and will be able to examine possibilities twice as fast. It’s still possible they just can’t do whatever thing, like speak Klingon or solve a Clay problem, though. Basically, 0+0=0.
A pair generally is fine, but as you add more you start getting problems with overhead and miscommunication, and more and more things will start to scale sublinearly. And, if it’s something where broad agreement is important, more people is often worse.