Secondary question on Dunbar: What is your stance on the 5-15-50-150 "Dunbar's Circle"? Are they effective identification of empathy size, size of effective teamwork, and so on? Would the Quadratic scaling theory apply to this layering as well?
I enjoyed this. My one side note would be towards the end: new mediums do destroy primacy of old ones, but also weaken past mental gifts that we took for granted. Now of course, older people are biased: I don't think that, say, the diminishment of radio as a medium is correlated to how today's young people hate talking on the phone. But I do think that social media is changing the way our memory works and the way we can size up sources of information for veracity. And the two issues may even be related. I look forward to future posts!
Very interesting to think through. One note though; Grammatical error: "Nature and human experience answers in the affirmative: we gossip." The "and" makes it a compound subject, requiring the plural "answer" rather than the singular "answers."
It's nice to see you stretch your legs on this topic a in long-form format - I see you hint about it a lot on Twitter, but it's not close enough to my wheelhouse for me to follow the hints without this kind of more detailed exploration :)
There's a bit I don't follow, though - "Social beliefs leak far too much information into our (presumptively) asocial ones."
I think I'm with you through most of that section. I've definitely caught myself reading a tweet, thinking something like "I *think* I agree with this, but I can't really tell what they mean" and, just as you describe, clicking over to their profile to figure out something approximately like "who is this person and what other things do they believe" to fill in the gaps around what they probably meant in the first message.
What would be an example of a social belief leaking information into an asocial one as a result of experiences like that?
Secondary question on Dunbar: What is your stance on the 5-15-50-150 "Dunbar's Circle"? Are they effective identification of empathy size, size of effective teamwork, and so on? Would the Quadratic scaling theory apply to this layering as well?
I enjoyed this. My one side note would be towards the end: new mediums do destroy primacy of old ones, but also weaken past mental gifts that we took for granted. Now of course, older people are biased: I don't think that, say, the diminishment of radio as a medium is correlated to how today's young people hate talking on the phone. But I do think that social media is changing the way our memory works and the way we can size up sources of information for veracity. And the two issues may even be related. I look forward to future posts!
Very interesting to think through. One note though; Grammatical error: "Nature and human experience answers in the affirmative: we gossip." The "and" makes it a compound subject, requiring the plural "answer" rather than the singular "answers."
It's nice to see you stretch your legs on this topic a in long-form format - I see you hint about it a lot on Twitter, but it's not close enough to my wheelhouse for me to follow the hints without this kind of more detailed exploration :)
There's a bit I don't follow, though - "Social beliefs leak far too much information into our (presumptively) asocial ones."
I think I'm with you through most of that section. I've definitely caught myself reading a tweet, thinking something like "I *think* I agree with this, but I can't really tell what they mean" and, just as you describe, clicking over to their profile to figure out something approximately like "who is this person and what other things do they believe" to fill in the gaps around what they probably meant in the first message.
What would be an example of a social belief leaking information into an asocial one as a result of experiences like that?