Website review: Evolution and Wisdom of Crowds
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•21 reviews since Oct 15, 2007
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- dbutler1986 rated 9 months ago
- How is "evolution is threatening to religious beliefs" 'the other way around' from "evolution is counter-intuitive to religious beliefs?"
Serpentist rated 9 months ago- Rob Brown: Evolution and Wisdom of Crowds Massive Darwinian rejection also stems from evolution's counterintuitive nature. Comparing it with three widsom of crowd systems (Wikipedia, etc.), three models unlikely in theory achieve a good outcome, through the equalizing force of selection.
- Renatapf rated 9 months ago
- From the page: "Does fundamentalist religion cause the rejection of evolution? or is it the other way around?"
- githori rated 9 months ago
- From the page: "Does fundamentalist religion cause the rejection of evolution? or is it the other way around?" So...the rejection of evolution causes fundamentalists? Eh?
- Thanuir rated 9 months ago
- Very interesting read.
- yobaba rated 9 months ago
- "Wisdom of crowds" ... that's being kind. I would rather he had called the concept "crowd mentality", which is closer to the truth. Interesting arguments; if anything this article gives me a bit more confidence in Wikipedia.
- MikeyMcMikenson rated 10 months ago
- Some of the analogies to evolution are off the mark. Nevertheless, the properties of complex and self organizing systems are fascinating and offering some as a preface to evolution seems pedagogically plausible. Now to see if we can learn some sense into a few creationists!!
- brtkrbzhnv rated 10 months ago
- Clearly, collaborative filtering's fucking beautiful. But methinks maybe creationism qua political pennant is important too; 'tis maybe more important, indeed, than this interesting inability to take in intuitively queer concepts.
- msaleem-stumbl rated 10 months ago
- From the page: "Does fundamentalist religion cause the rejection of evolution? or is it the other way around?"
- pcalnon rated 10 months ago
- from the page: "Conventional wisdom says that the primary reason why so many people do not accept Darwin's theory of evolution is that they find it threatening to their religious beliefs. There is no question that religion is a big part of the reason behind the large number of people who reject evolution. But I am convinced that just as often, the cause and effect is reversed: people hold onto their fundamentalist religious beliefs because evolution by natural selection -- the strongest argument against an Old Testament-type creator -- is so counter-intuitive to so many.
I arrive at this conclusion in a somewhat roundabout way. I have long been fascinated with systems that tap into the 'wisdom of crowds' -- systems that, in fact, have much in common with Darwinian evolution. Such systems doubtfully conflict with anyone's religion, and yet, I see the same sort of resistance to them as I see to evolution. The arguments against them are remarkably similar." - from the page: "Conventional wisdom says that the primary reason why so many people do not accept Darwin's theory of evolution is that they find it threatening to their religious beliefs. There is no question that religion is a big part of the reason behind the large number of people who reject evolution. But I am convinced that just as often, the cause and effect is reversed: people hold onto their fundamentalist religious beliefs because evolution by natural selection -- the strongest argument against an Old Testament-type creator -- is so counter-intuitive to so many.
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