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Karen W's avatar

Only if the oldest, most experienced members of the exchange each get a lot of info, and increasing amounts of info about the ‘stock’ before a decision is made.

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Nicholas Perry ~ @UltimApe's avatar

You're missing the significance of fact that bees will actively head butt other bees they disagree with. After enough of this negative signaling (harassment) behavior, the dancing bee with stop dancing.

Fun fact: a pushdown automata is only Turing complete if it has two tapes. Theoretically this means that you need both positive and negative signals to run the algorithm. The thought experiment of Buridan's ass (particularly in the vein of Leslie Lamport's view on it) suggests that the bee's search algorithm may be subject to the halting problem, and so we hit a speed/accuracy trade off (hence the 95% figure) due to physical time constraints subject to riks/reward processes.

A hive that can't find a site to live will die from exposure or predators, or simply not be able to continue searching due to running out of food.

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