Working societies are stacks of superminds, not one type. Communities elect democracies, democracies elect and instruct hierarchical governments, governments supervise markets, and markets make the detailed decisions; each layer takes what the one above is too slow or costly to decide. Malone generalises it: solving a real problem usually takes a combination of superminds working as a larger one.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsSuperminds (audiobook machine transcript), Thomas W. Malone

  It usually requires picking a combination of superminds that can work together as a larger supermind.

• groundsSuperminds (audiobook machine transcript), Thomas W. Malone

  Instead, we'll let hierarchical governments supervise markets on behalf of the whole community, but we'll supervise the governments in two ways.

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