Matt Crosslin responds to George Siemens. He first crtiticizes one of the core points: "a system made up of many individuals has more intellectual capacity than individuals? Well… duh. Hasn't it been that way since the beginning of human intellect? Adding more people gives you more capacity." I don't think this captures the nuance between simply stacking capacity (ie, adding volume) as opposed to combining capacity (ie, adding complexity). And when Siemens writes, "Personal knowledge is comprised of a network, which feeds into organizations and institutions, which in turn feed back into the network, and then continue to provide learning to individual. This cycle of knowledge development (personal to network to organization) allows learners to remain current in their field through the connections they have formed," Crosslin responds, "None of this is artificial." But I don't think we've seen a naturally occurring organization or institution through all of history. But Crosslin's main point is in the title: "I am pretty skeptical that AGi will ever happen – but people keep trying to see it where it doesn't exist." I'd defer to his deep knowledge here, but if he makes basic errors, I think it might just be an opinion based on an intuition, and nothing more.
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