On 17 January 2023, Émile Servan-Schreiber shared another excerpt from his appearance on Can I get that software in blue? The programme described the clip as a discussion of how increasing participation could improve collective intelligence. It had selected the segment using an AI tool called Dubb.
The source was episode 19, hosted by Steve Mayzak and Chad Tindel. The official episode page is dated 6 November 2022; the podcast feed records a 7 November release and a running time of 1 hour, 24 minutes and 15 seconds. Servan-Schreiber shared the launch that day, saying it had been recorded in New York during the summer.
A business audience for crowd forecasting
The show addresses technology-sales professionals, including people in presales, solution architecture, support and professional services. Its episode notes describe a conversation about the science of collective intelligence and how people can improve their thinking by drawing on others in their networks.
The notes also identify a practical counterpart: Hypermind’s prediction-market platforms for companies and governments. The guest was introduced as Hypermind’s managing director and a cognitive scientist. This frames the episode around both the study of cognition and the design of systems that collect judgements inside organizations.
What the January clips establish
The first clip announcement, shared on 11 January 2023, said Dubb had detected interesting segments in the episode. Servan-Schreiber described the result with amusement: an AI had selected his explanation of why people have brains. The second announcement, shared six days later, focused on crowd size.
The clips illustrate how automated selection can give a long conversation a second audience. The programme chose excerpts about human cognition and participation, two subjects that connect the episode’s scientific and organisational themes. Selection changes what a listener encounters first: a short segment offers an entry point, while the full discussion provides context.
The later IFTTD interview on expertise and diversity develops a related question: which differences among contributors help a group think better? Participant count is one feature of a collective; the episode notes also direct attention to how people use knowledge from their networks. The January clip captions do not provide a numerical crowd-size effect.
