In 1991, James G. March showed that a learning system can become less intelligent by learning too quickly.
Exploitation produces clearer and more immediate rewards than exploration, so adaptive organizations gradually favor it. However, he also found that rapid convergence destroys useful disagreement.
Slow learners and newcomers improve collective knowledge because they preserve alternatives that the shared consensus has not yet absorbed.
@richardcsuwandi Interesting! Reminds me of Barbara Oakley's brick wall metaphor in "A mind for numbers."
