文章探讨了从众行为的深层影响，指出我们不仅模仿他人的行为，更深层地模仿了他们知识的结构。从众行为在过去可能是一种有效的适应性策略，但随着社会发展，尤其是互联网时代的到来，从众行为可能不再可靠，因为我们可能接触到错误信息和虚假的人工智能。

🤔 从众行为是人类社会适应性的重要组成部分，我们不仅模仿他人的行为，更重要的是模仿了他们知识的结构，这种模仿是潜意识的，例如我们学习语言，就是通过模仿他人来吸收知识，并将其应用于语言的理解和生成。

🎯 在过去，从众行为是一种有效的启发式算法，因为人们生活在小规模的社会中，与自然环境紧密相连，他们的观念会不断受到现实和彼此的检验，错误的观念难以传播。

⚠️ 随着社会的进步，尤其是互联网时代的到来，从众行为的可靠性受到挑战，因为我们可能会接触到错误信息和虚假的人工智能，导致从众行为不再可靠。

🧠 因此，我们需要反思从众行为的局限性，并学会独立思考，批判性地评估信息，避免盲目地跟随他人。

Published on July 13, 2024 8:20 AM GMT

We are social animals, and conformity is part of our social adaptation. We imitate others. This imitation is not just superficial. It is deep. We imitate the structure of knowledge in other brains. For example, you learned language by absorbing knowledge from other people. That knowledge is subconscious. You use it every time you interpret or generate language, but you have no conscious access to it. You absorbed it subconsciously, and you apply it subconsciously.

In the past, conformity was a good heuristic. Common memes were probably adaptive. If a meme was harmful to its hosts, they would not prosper. So, if you imitated the successful people in your community, you would likely be successful too. People lived in small societies, and they lived close to nature. Their memes were regularly tested by reality, and by each other. False beliefs could arise, such as religion, but such beliefs were tested for their adaptiveness. It was hard for a maladaptive meme to spread.

Conformity is unreliable if any of the following are true: 1. Most people are crazy. 2. You can choose your social circle. 3. You are exposed to artificial people. (see the rest of the post in the link)

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