- If you can identify high [[energy]] [[nodes]] in a [[network]], you can solve for the most resource-efficient transportation routes with a [[slime mold]]. - Individuals in [[groups]] are [[isolation]] averse. This is part of what helps build [[consensus]]. When choosing between two seemingly equal choices, groups will default on the choice that has more individuals supporting it. If lead [[scouts]] all think the same thing, then [[information]] is not properly integrated. For this reason, it is useful for a group to have scouts with a [[diversity]] of information. [[Indecision]] among scouts results in an indirect poll of potential followers- since followers will only blindly follow if there is [[unity]] among scouts. Information spreads best if individuals with high informational breadth are spread evenly through the group. - What decides [[salience]] in your [[attention]]? What [[marks]] do you look for to find a [[trail]] worth following? How can you leave such marks for others? - To be an [[expert]] is to have gone through something and come out of it alive. - [[Murder]] is an attempt to resolve [[uncertainty]]. collapsed:: true - So if you give someone a way to define you in a way that resolves their uncertainty without needing to kill you to resolve their uncertainty, you will not be killed. - - -