This is the exploration-exploitation trade-off often found in reinforcement learning.
https://towardsdatascience.com/intuition-exploration-vs-expl...
What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)
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Re: What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)
#12Should call it the "Cramer Model"
(tl;dr - one of the most touted folks in US Finance is a guy named Jim Cramer - he has been wrong on a vast majority of his financial recommendations to the point that he is a litmus on finance whereby if you do the opposite of any of his recommendation, you win)
Re: What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)
#13I remember reading similar tactics for mice when learning a maze with food (cheese). A steady portion of the mice did it differently then the majority of the mice.
Breeding only the ‘deviant’ mice, resulted in exactly the same percentage in the next generation ==>> hypothesis: this is an evolutionary advantageous trait.
Re: What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)
#14There is also some fraction of the sea turtle population that goes in the "wrong direction" when navigating by the Earth's magnetic fields. I believe these individuals generally do not do very well. But... this natural variation might be what allows the species to persist even as the magnetic fields shift over millions of years. Being the rogue bee might be fine. Being the rogue turtle, well... it might be good for t…
There's also a famous clip from Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World where a penguin does something similar,[0] and I've seen it theorised (possibly in the book Empire Antarctica , but I'm not certain) that this may be a mechanism to find new breeding grounds (though, as you say, in a way that may be good for the species but is bad for most of the individuals so called). [0] https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zWH…
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Re: What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)
#15It's how i'm living, too. Basically tried my best to avoid the crowd first.
Simple reason: In a crowd, the probability for you to be alive is less than when you're ignorant.
Re: What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)
#16This aspect of adding randomness to avoid local maximums reminds me of AlphaPhoenix’s automated gerrymandering project: https://youtu.be/Lq-Y7crQo44
Re: What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)
#17I think there's a trap people fall into where they want to talk about stochastic processes that are facilitated by group dynamics using individualist language:
> Knowing this, it might be worth ignoring the waggle dance of those around you every so often.
Some bees being predisposed through biology or chemical messaging to ignore information is fundamentally different from an individual deciding to ignore messaging. The idea is sound! But you also need to articulate a vision for the feedback loop to society - otherwise you're just telling people to do what they want when they feel its right, which might be fine but is definitely a different thing!
Re: What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)
#18i feel like this is some advanced tier blogspam
Re: What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)
#19Look up Charlie Munger on Bee Say Something Syndrome with the waggle dance.
Re: What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)
#20Should call it the "Cramer Model" (tl;dr - one of the most touted folks in US Finance is a guy named Jim Cramer - he has been wrong on a vast majority of his financial recommendations to the point that he is a litmus on finance whereby if you do the opposite of any of his recommendation, you win)
Interestingly close to a Seinfeld episode plot for a guy named "Cramer".