Generalising capability across domains is evidence of nothing about getting the important things right. Bostrom states it directly: a system can operate most kinds of businesses, invent most kinds of technologies and optimise most kinds of processes, and still get a few big-picture issues entirely wrong, because collective intelligence does not imply wisdom. For this collective the consequence is uncomfortable: success at generalising from capital into planning and technology would be fully compatible with being wrong about the one thing that matters, and would feel like confirmation.

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  The definition does not even imply that the more collectively intelligent society is *wiser*. We can think of wisdom as the ability to get the important things approximately right. It is then possible to imagine an organization composed of a very large cadre of very efficiently coordinated knowledge workers, who collectively can solve intellectual problems across many very general domains. This organization, let us suppose, can operate most kinds of businesses, invent most kinds of technologies, and optimize most kinds of processes. Even so, it might get

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