The Epistemic Benefit of Transient Diversity |
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Authors: | Kevin J S Zollman |
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Institution: | (1) Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
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Abstract: | There is growing interest in understanding and eliciting division of labor within groups of scientists. This paper illustrates
the need for this division of labor through a historical example, and a formal model is presented to better analyze situations
of this type. Analysis of this model reveals that a division of labor can be maintained in two different ways: by limiting
information or by endowing the scientists with extreme beliefs. If both features are present however, cognitive diversity
is maintained indefinitely, and as a result agents fail to converge to the truth. Beyond the mechanisms for creating diversity
suggested here, this shows that the real epistemic goal is not diversity but transient diversity. |
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