Love this. Agree completely. I think one of the places where it's easiest to see how things start to get worse is within corporations. I've watched the company I work for grow from somewhere under 200 employees to somewhere over 500, and I've watched in that same time how it's begun to be consumed by processes instead of actions (not to mention ~automation~).
But it's inevitable. You get to the point where you can't know everyone you work with, and they start to become less than human. Names on a sheet. Entries in a ledger. Everything else flows from that.
Now scale that up to countries the size of ours. Now try to imagine that being scaled to the whole world.
Conceptually, "Dunbar's Circles" are a thing, and that empathy, collaboration effectiveness, process dominance, and more are dictated by it. (see keywords "support clique", "sympathy group", "active network"/"close network"/"band", "personal network"/"cognitive group"/"clan", "acquaintance"/"megaband", "recognizable"/"tribe")
Now, imagine if we can do the same, but with number of meta-concepts.
I thought dunbars number was more about relationships than distinguishability. I think I've remembered every face I've ever met, but I don't remember the names or stories. But I agree with the actual point of your post. Why did you delete the coca cola one, coward?
I didnt? but youre right about dunbar I just wanted to use my face visualization thought experiment even though no one likes it except me, which muddied the point
Jaywalking works and is based because you don't get hit by stop signs.
There's of course the guy who reads books about talking to girls instead of talking to them, but we must consider the pilot. He knows the Earth is round, technically, and it ruins him. Always on the go, always between heaven and home. He is also cheating on his wife, because he occupies two places at once and belongs to neither. Cursed existence. Do not let them turn you into a pilot! Do the sane thing and believe the Earth is flat.
Love this. Agree completely. I think one of the places where it's easiest to see how things start to get worse is within corporations. I've watched the company I work for grow from somewhere under 200 employees to somewhere over 500, and I've watched in that same time how it's begun to be consumed by processes instead of actions (not to mention ~automation~).
But it's inevitable. You get to the point where you can't know everyone you work with, and they start to become less than human. Names on a sheet. Entries in a ledger. Everything else flows from that.
Now scale that up to countries the size of ours. Now try to imagine that being scaled to the whole world.
Conceptually, "Dunbar's Circles" are a thing, and that empathy, collaboration effectiveness, process dominance, and more are dictated by it. (see keywords "support clique", "sympathy group", "active network"/"close network"/"band", "personal network"/"cognitive group"/"clan", "acquaintance"/"megaband", "recognizable"/"tribe")
Now, imagine if we can do the same, but with number of meta-concepts.
The world is flat, it's space-time the curves, not the object itself.
Yes!
im going don quijote mode
I thought dunbars number was more about relationships than distinguishability. I think I've remembered every face I've ever met, but I don't remember the names or stories. But I agree with the actual point of your post. Why did you delete the coca cola one, coward?
I didnt? but youre right about dunbar I just wanted to use my face visualization thought experiment even though no one likes it except me, which muddied the point
Oh, sorry. For some reason the fairy tale one was popping up as the top post for me but maybe I'm just retarded.
Related thoughts:
Jaywalking works and is based because you don't get hit by stop signs.
There's of course the guy who reads books about talking to girls instead of talking to them, but we must consider the pilot. He knows the Earth is round, technically, and it ruins him. Always on the go, always between heaven and home. He is also cheating on his wife, because he occupies two places at once and belongs to neither. Cursed existence. Do not let them turn you into a pilot! Do the sane thing and believe the Earth is flat.