gwern comments on Intelligence explosion in organizations, or why I'm not worried about the singularity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 28 December 2012 05:41:45PM 0 points [-]

It's the latter kind of organization that I'm considering as a candidate for organizational superintelligence. These seem pretty robust and good at what they do (making shareholders profit).

As far as I know, large corporations are almost as ephemeral as small corporations.

But more mundane ways of doing this involve giving employees bonuses based on company performance, or stock options. Or, for a different kind of organization, by providing citizens with a national identity. Organizations encourage loyalty in all kinds of ways.

Which tells you something about how valuable it is, and how ineffective each of the many ways is, no?