Attractor patterns
The honey bees dances which act as the "attractor patterns". These dance patterns signal the "best site". Swarm intelligence is what we are seeing with bees but we also see it with humans. With humans we could substitute the "dance pattern" with something as simple as a data feed (which often is just a rising price trend). The data feed pattern represents an attractor pattern which can attract a swarm.
Human beings are looking for "value". Swarms of human beings interested in value will look for certain attractor patterns that signal the kind of "value" they are looking for. Personal preference swarms bring AI into the mix by allowing non-human software agents to augment the human swarm capability.
Human-AI hybrid Swarms on Steemit
This will probably by controversial but bots are our friend. Curators can use bots to more equitably distribute Steem Power by letting the bots search for value. As long as these bots know what "attractor patterns" to look for then they'll converge toward posts of value. This may become necessary because the attention of curators is scarce but at the same time if a curator could correctly predict which posts will go viral then they have the most to win. In essence the curators in Steemit are like the scout bees searching for the most beautiful flowers.
These swarms also benefit minnows who could be seen as the deeper swarm. These minnows would benefit more if they had the ability to vote in sync and in essence pool their votes. This is possible simply by setting some criteria for how they would like to treat certain posts. The culture of minnows ultimately dictates the behavior of the swarm itself, while better tools such as bots with AI could be used in ways I can't fully predict or grasp. It could be used in trade, it could be used to enforce social norms or reward people with favorable reputations, it could be used to punish abuse.
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Someone brought it to my attention that they think I plagiarized myself. Unfortunately they did not check my blog for the public keys I used to confirm ownership: http://darkai.org/?p=527