Dunbar's number
concept · 14 episodes · JSON
Also known as: Dunbar, Dunbar number
- Not Up and To The Right; Just Deeper, Really; Better Wording Faster; Tools for Remembering; A Centaur for Caring?; Of Course They're Art … useful connection? Caring connections? It's here where the Dunbar number, however discredited, is something that feels like it should be right, that it wants to be right …
- Building and Documentation; Making New Mistakes; Eternal Tumblr; Governance in the Early Days of a Better Nation
- Colliders; Speedrunning; Benevolent Dictators Have Significant Failure States; Verification Deserts; The Inflationary epoch
- Didn't Organize, Only Moved; Context Collapse
- "Decentralized?!" … Ambient internet Some mail from Nick Sweeney in response to last episode’s mention of the Dunbar Number Again and what it takes for online local groups to …
- Dunbar’s Goose and the Pump Handle … For those who aren’t familiar with Robin Dunbar’s number, let me do a quick Wikipedia précis: it’s a 1990s suggestion by Robin Dunbar, a British …
- Firebreak Protocol … The idea being that openness wins which, okay, that’s a nice saying, but maybe, just maybe the thing about the Dunbar number that a group of increasingly …
- Probably Not Gutless … a "global networked community"? Look, yes, there's all the stuff about the Dunbar number. But I feel like Facebook and Twitter - with things like global search and …
- Not Actually A Law
- It's Difficult
- The Defense of Humanity Act … Right? Not people who use computing infrastructure to support kinship groups radically larger than their Dunbar number. Is a large Dunbar number something that will be legislated against …
- Episode One Hundred and Ninety Five: … One for friends - that holds quite steady at the Dunbar number - and a "public". Friends have said that they're sometimes surprised at where I draw the line …
- Not Missing Out … Tilde.club as a way of huddling close, a way of preserving that small Dunbar number, even in a large group of a thousand. So, perhaps two user …
- Happy Birthday and Connections … you know what would be great? If we hacked away the Dunbar number as a constraint on the number of social connections we're able to maintain. And …