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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I prefer to say that humans are not very efficient at organizing. We’re just the most efficient so far for general problems.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

your comment reminds me of a text I read a long time ago, comparing humans to ants and pointing that we're incredibly intelligent when alone, but we become less and less intelligent when in bigger groups, while ants seem not very intelligent when alone, but when in groups, they seem amazingly intelligent