It was not superintelligence as it was not able as a whole to produce novel results when solving problems that were beyond the capacity of single human. I doubt that social media had any positive impact at all on problem solving.

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cwmoore 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

On the whole, maybe, but I’m sure there are numerous notable exceptions.

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logicchains 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Social media has brought the world closer than ever before to solving a genocide that's been going on mostly un-noticed for decades, thanks to decentralising the flow of information so that it's no longer controlled by a small number of individuals: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqyx35d9x2o

	▲	ivan_gammel 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Solution for distributing information is not the same as solution for analysis and synthesis, just like the nerves in our hands aren’t functioning the same way as our brain.