At least a committee of 10 identical members wont be dumber than a single member most of the time. A committee of clones is just scaling up compute in order to solve larger problems. Imagine if you could clone yourself with your knowledge and mental state, much more useful than trying to cooperate with another human.
I always felt that the decrease in intelligence is a side effect of the necessary consensus mechanisms.
10 genius clones would still take on various roles/positions in the system, requiring some optimization with respect to alignment under time/energy constraints.
At least a committee of 10 identical members wont be dumber than a single member most of the time. A committee of clones is just scaling up compute in order to solve larger problems. Imagine if you could clone yourself with your knowledge and mental state, much more useful than trying to cooperate with another human.
According to Condorcet's jury theorem, a committee of 10 identical members may be smarter than a single member.
This seems obvious to me, as there'd be ten times more computational resources.
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I always felt that the decrease in intelligence is a side effect of the necessary consensus mechanisms.
10 genius clones would still take on various roles/positions in the system, requiring some optimization with respect to alignment under time/energy constraints.
But the committee-thinking is still constrained by the language. Any committee-thoughts must be coarser and slower than the member thoughts.
We're trading depth for breadth, or something like that.