It's interesting that most puzzles got solved faster than if one person tried it alone. And that's without an option to talk to each other. Seems that you're tapping into some kind of "swarm intelligence" that humans use rarely, but animals like ants use all the time. Interesting to be part of such a thing for a short while. Fascinating stuff.
I think perhaps it gets solved faster than if one person was trying, but you're putting 4 work-seconds into every real second of time. Sure there are some overheads while others work out what the first person to solve the problem is doing, but once one person has solved it and put their block into place, most of the time it becomes obvious.
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It's interesting that most puzzles got solved faster than if one person tried it alone. And that's without an option to talk to each other. Seems that you're tapping into some kind of "swarm intelligence" that humans use rarely, but animals like ants use all the time. Interesting to be part of such a thing for a short while. Fascinating stuff.
I think perhaps it gets solved faster than if one person was trying, but you're putting 4 work-seconds into every real second of time. Sure there are some overheads while others work out what the first person to solve the problem is doing, but once one person has solved it and put their block into place, most of the time it becomes obvious.