The collective intelligence genome

Question 1

What are the genes?

How is a gene defined?

Answer 1

What is being done?

Who is doing it?

Why are they doing it?

How is it being done?

–> the gene can be defined as the answer to one of those questions

Question 2

What is the genome?

Answer 2

The full combination of genes associated with a specific example of collective intelligence can be viewed as the “genome” of the system

Question 3

What are the ‘what’ genes? (explain them)

Answer 3

1. Create: The actors in the system generate something new
2. Decide: The actors evaluate and select alternatives

Question 4

1) What are the ‘who’ genes?
2) What is the relationship between them?

Answer 4

1) Crowd + Hierarchy
2) Identifying your basic goal determines which of these two genes to start with, but in the full genome for doing a job you usually need at least one of each

Question 5

When do you use crowd over hierarchy?

Answer 5

Crowd:

1. Resources useful in performing activities are distributed widely or in places not known in advance
2. Activities can be devided into pieces satisfactorily (–> necessary information can be shared + gaming and sabotage can be managed)
3. Crowds can do things cheaper, faster, with higher quality or with higher motivation?

Hierarchy

1. Conditions for crowds aren’t met

Question 6

What are the ‘why’ genes? (the list is extensive, but which three do we talk about)

And what are the benefits of these?

Answer 6

Money

Love

Glory

• appealing for to love and glory, rather than money, can often reduce costs
• Providing money and glory can often influence a group’s direction and speed

Question 7

What ‘how’ genes are associated with create?

explain them

Answer 7

1. Collection: Acitivity can be divided into small pieces that can be done (mostly) independently of each other
   
   1. Contest: only a few good solutions are needed
2. Collaboration: Acitivities cannot be divided into small independent pieces

AND, there are satisfactory ways of managing the dependencies among the pieces

Question 8

What are the ‘decide’ genes?

explain them

Answer 8

1. Group decision: Everyone in the group needs to abide by the same decision
   
   1. Voting
   2. Averaging
   3. Consensus
   4. Prediction Market
2. Individual Decisions: Individuals can make their own decision
   
   1. ​Market (money is needed to motivate)
   2. Social Network (non-monetary motivations are sufficient)