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Pete Miles

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Ex- consultant, manager, marketer, engineer. Interested in Complexity, Systems and Collective Intelligence. GSOH (Brit)

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · Nov 16

Welcome to Bluesky, the latest operating system for Collective Intelligence on planet Earth.

As short thread on a paper from the Royal Society in the context of innovation, which explains how you fit in.

(For those who participated in the prototype phase, Twitter/X can now be deleted.)

Abstract

Innovation is often assumed to be the work of a talented few, whose products are
passed on to the masses. Here, we argue that innovations are instead an emergent
property of our species' cultural learning abilities, applied within our societies and social
networks. Our societies and social networks act as collective brains. We outline how
many human brains, which evolved primarily for the acquisition of culture, together
beget a collective brain. Within these collective brains, the three main sources of
innovation are serendipity, recombination and incremental improvement. We argue that
rates of innovation are heavily influenced by (i) sociality, (ii) transmission fidelity, and (iii)
cultural variance. We discuss some of the forces that affect these factors. These factors
can also shape each other. For example, we provide preliminary evidence that
transmission efficiency is affected by sociality-languages with more speakers are more
efficient. We argue that collective brains can make each of their constituent cultural
brains more innovative. This perspective sheds light on traits, such as IQ, that have been
implicated in innovation. A collective brain perspective can help us understand
otherwise puzzling findings in the IQ literature, including group differences, heritability
differences and the dramatic increase in IQ test scores over time.

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Max Hauser @maxhsr.bsky.social · 2h

"Haribo declined to comment when approached by BBC" 🤣

Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 3h

every line of this story keeps getting better

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge

Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 8h

stop thinking right now

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 6h

£90 in Tesco (for anyone else interested)

Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 7h

Just made a few people jump in coffee shop

Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 7h

Ooh I can taste that

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 10h

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old

“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”

Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

Black-and-white picture of two children playing in woodland. Also in the picture, there are 12 hidden animals including an owl, a bat and a squirrel.

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 7h

It seems hard to convince people of this

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 9h

It's a bit hidden away on their website, you have to scroll down past all the flu stuff

Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 9h

I try not to repost too much American stuff, but perhaps this fits a scary Halloween theme...

Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker: “Another thing that’s happened with very few people paying attention is they demanded our voter data. Not just ours in Illinois — every state’s voter data. Why? They won’t tell us why.”

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 9h

Is that the pyramid?

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 9h

'Parris' of course. (Can I blame autocorrect for that one?)

Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 9h

I just discovered (from another thread on here) that Tesco pharmacies are offering COVID jabs for £90.

www.tesco.com/groceries/en...

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 9h

Tucked away below flu Vax on their website, but there it is, for £90.

www.tesco.com/groceries/en...

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 9h

A day late, but good advice...

Dr Pete Olusoga @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social · 1d

It's World Mental Health Day.

This is all I got for you.

#worldmentalhealthday

Black text on a yellow background reading "It's probably best to just be nice to people."

Dr Pete Olusoga
eightypercentmental.com

Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 9h

I need to look into this... (there's a COVID wave in the UK right now)

Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 9h

I hope you were expecting it?

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 10h

Hātabaðan, n: Bath (place name). (HA-ta-BA-thon / ˈhaː-ta-ˌba-θan)
The city of Bath used to be called Hot Baths.
Image: Book of Hours; St Omer or Théouranne, c. 1320; @britishlibrary.bsky.social Add MS 36684, f. 7v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD #placenames

Medieval marginalia depicting a person bathing in a barrel-like tub, with a large bird perched above them and a dragon like creature lurking below.

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Pete Miles @petermiles.bsky.social · 10h

Matthew Harris tried living on benefits for a week back in the 80s, and looking for a reference to that I found this Guardian article that mentions others, including a call for Iain Duncan Smith to try it for a year (he did not!)

www.theguardian.com/politics/sho...