Makes we wonder what the optimal group size is for human intelligence. Induvidually we can be consistently pretty smart, and in very large groups we're brazenly idiotic even when the group is composed entierly of induvidually smart people. Yet most important research these days requires a team, so there must be some (likely fairly small) optimal group size to optimize useful intelligence/person.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 16 hours ago

It is likely a number no greater than 150.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

I’d like to see a larger group of people doing this with extremely limited communication. Like if you had 100-200 people only allowed to push the shape with their mouse cursor in a web app. I have a feeling we’d end up with similar results to the ant time-lapse.

Basically like the collaborative canvas projects around April fools.