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• WILLIAMSA 16 Jun 2020 22:12 UTC

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  in reply to: Thomas Kwa’s comment on: Are All Ex­is­ten­tial Risks Equiv­a­lent to a Lack of Gen­eral Col­lec­tive In­tel­li­gence? And is GCI there­fore the Most Im­por­tant Hu­man In­no­va­tion in the His­tory and Im­me­di­ate Fu­ture of Mankind?

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Are All Ex­is­ten­tial Risks Equiv­a­lent to a Lack of Gen­eral Col­lec­tive In­tel­li­gence? And is GCI there­fore the Most Im­por­tant Hu­man In­no­va­tion in the His­tory and Im­me­di­ate Fu­ture of Mankind?

• WILLIAMSA 16 Jun 2020 12:27 UTC

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  in reply to: rajlego’s comment on: EAGxVir­tual Un­con­fer­ence (Satur­day, June 20th 2020)

  For a little more information you can read about an experiment I’m trying to conduct to validate that GCI has the potential to significantly increase the effectiveness of altruism https://​​forum.effectivealtruism.org/​​posts/​​cc8WN9LFz8pATRMYz/​​how-to-launch-an-experiment-in-the-effective-altruism

  For still more information you can watch a 5 minute video of one particular potential application of GCI in another field: https://​​www.youtube.com/​​watch?v=HJalaQJCkts

  For yet further information, you can read a published paper summarizing the topic:

  The Relationship Between Collective Intelligence and One Model of General Collective Intelligence, Andy E. Williams, Computational Collective Intelligence, 11th International Conference, ICCCI 2019, Hendaye, France, September 4–6, 2019, Proceedings, Part II, Pages 589-600

  Or you can read the pre-print (working draft) of another paper that provides a lot more detail:

  Williams, A. E. (2020, April 30). A Model for General Collective Intelligence. https://​​doi.org/​​10.31730/​​osf.io/​​6u984

How to Launch an Ex­per­i­ment in the Effec­tive Altru­ism Com­mu­nity to Con­firm that Gen­eral Col­lec­tive In­tel­li­gence can Sig­nifi­cantly In­crease the Effec­tive­ness of Altruism

• WILLIAMSA 11 Jun 2020 15:08 UTC

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  on: EAGxVir­tual Un­con­fer­ence (Satur­day, June 20th 2020)

  Using General Collective Intelligence to Break through the Barriers to Global Transformation

  I’d like to give a presentation on General Collective Intelligence or GCI, which is a decision-making system that combines groups into a single collective intelligence with vastly greater general problem-solving ability than any individual in the group. In this presentation I’d like to talk about why GCI might be critical to achieving virtually every group challenge when the group is big enough, potentially including all the global outcomes targeted by every individual at the EAGxVirtual conference. And why because of hidden bugs in our decision-making processes, without GCI we not have the ability to actually see the real problem or understand the real solutions to global challenges, and end up solving the wrong problem with the wrong solution. I’ll also explore why, because of these and many other reasons, GCI is potentially one of the most important initiatives today.