Humanity is Under Attack. We Can Build Genies To Save Us.
What's a genie?
The following is the script for the first video at Swarm Academy.
VIDEO VERSION - NOTE: We are still working on making this animated, the images are just place holders and it should be finished in a few weeks. (about 5 min long):
SCRIPT:
“Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it — in a decade, a century, or a millennium — we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise?” - John Archibald Wheeler
The Society of Problem Solvers Presents:
How to build Genies everywhere and change the world.
Welcome to the most interesting place you’ve ever visited; a place where we're mastering and exploring the science of building Genies. Yes, you heard that correctly: Genies.
The term “genie” comes from Tim Urban’s book “What’s Our Problem?” It describes the new entity that emerges when people solve problems together in groups, in just the right way. Imagine 10 or 100 or 1 million people forming into an almost magical new being - a cohesive force. Or, picture a brain of brains, where each person is one node of a new, larger, super brain that is exponentially more powerful than the sum of the individual people that make it up.
That’s a genie.
(Artwork cred: Tim Urban)
And even though there are many examples in human history where groups of people did incredible things together that seemed like magic, creating genies isn’t magic at all. It’s science. Anyone can learn how to create a genie, including you.
The evidence of genies is already all around us. When people collaborate together using well thought out systems, we have the ability to change skylines, conquer harsh environments, form nations, harness energy, explore outer space, save lives, build systems that connect humanity in beautiful ways, and even lift most of the world out of extreme poverty.
Genies have the potential to be one of the most powerful forces in the known universe, and that’s not hyperbole.
BUT – like all powerful forces such as electricity or nuclear - there is also danger to navigate. Sometimes when humans assemble into groups we do horrible things. Tim Urban calls these bad groups of people “Golems.”
The question is: Why?
Why is it that sometimes groups of people can be marvelous genies and create innovations that help billions of people, while other times we form into golems such as witch hunts, wars, mob mentality, cults, tyranny and more?
Today, humanity faces several modern golems in the form of our corrupted political and corporate systems. If we fail to corral these golems, we could be in great danger. The good news is that humanity has the knowledge to control golems. It is actually not that hard to do. The answer is to build bigger, better, and more genies - everywhere. Then link them together.
Here at Swarm Academy, we’re gonna break down exactly what it is that we know so far about how to turn groups of people into genies. And how to avoid golems. We look forward to showing you about a little known branch of science called “collective intelligence” or “human swarm intelligence,” which is built on an extraordinary and testable phenomenon called “the Wisdom of Crowds.” The entire premise boils down to a simple theory: there is potent wisdom, creativity, and problem-solving ability to be extracted from groups of people. But doing so requires high-trust systems and well thought out processes in order to optimize the groups, and to avoid turning them into golems.
In this emerging field of science, any group of people working together to solve problems is called a “swarm.” This is not our term, this is the scientific term. A human swarm can be either bad like a golem or good like a genie. Understanding why swarms sometimes become golems and sometimes become genies is the key to safely harnessing this powerful force.
Right now humanity as a whole faces a group problem-solving crisis. Our ability to solve problems in large groups has been hijacked. We were on the right path for a while, but currently most of the systems that people use to collaborate on have become corrupted. Systems of government, media, academia, and even science have all lost the trust of the people. Our systems are no longer getting good results. This corruption not only prevents humanity from reaching our potential, but it actually sets us backwards.
By building and using new systems to form genies, we can fix our corrupted world, and upgrade how humanity works together to become more intelligent, more creative, more empathetic, more self-aware, more open to criticism, more optimistic, and more powerful, together.
We have the knowledge, technology, and ability to build genies all around us right now.
How?
We aim to explain all of this and more in the following free video series. This fascinating new area of science needs more people here exploring it and studying it, so we are glad that you are here. Think of this as a call to adventure. Do you want to explore something with us? We can right now explore together these immensely powerful new tools for humanity by combining our intelligence and creativity together.
You don’t have to believe us. You can see for yourself.
In our next video you will witness the power of collective intelligence and what humanity has already used it for. By changing the way we interact with each other in groups, we can change everything.
For billions of years on this Earth all that existed were single celled organisms. Then one day they learned how to cooperate with each other to make complex multi-celled life such as plants, animals, and humans. When people connect in just the right way, this same type of evolution is possible.
Welcome to Swarm Academy, the world’s first completely free collective intelligence training center.
(next video - There is more than one way to make a genie - collective intelligence 101).
CLick HERE to read how to build genies to fix government in 3 simple steps.
All problems that do not defy the laws of physics are solvable with the right knowledge - David Deutsch
Humans solve problems better in high-trust groups, and solving problems is happiness!
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So Genie swarms unite by creating trust with a goal of happiness while Golem swarms unite in fear of destruction by bullies?
Sounds like the difference lies in the uniting component: trust or fear?
Sounds like you’re looking for an unimpeachably level playing field to me. ;)