[Bluestein]

Ah! We are entering "paperclip factory" territory here, with your question ... :)

> is there a difference between 30 million and 300 million, 3 billion to 30 billion?

In organizational terms? That is, terms of how you would go about organizing or operating ...

... I would humbly only go as far as saying this: I feel there has to be (some) upper limit beyond which any "structure" other than a "self-organizing" structure will collapse or be unmanageable.-

PS. DAOs (which, sadly, seem (?) to be on the wane), were at (some) end of that spectrum, methinks ...

[s1artibartfast]

Most, if not all, human structures are self organizing by definition. They simply differ in their stability depending on scale and conditions.

I wonder if the stability of DAOs benefit or are hindered with scale. It may be implementation specific as well.

The Sci-fi part of my brain finds parallels in feudalism, which used delegation and strict hierarchy to deal with the span of control issue.

[Bluestein]

> It may be implementation specific as well.

I would posit it is. Totally.-

PS. For all we know, the first thing a superhumanly intelligent AGI might do is "forcibly-self-organize" us into a DAO, doing away with the political system. I, for one, would welcome that :)

> The Sci-fi part of my brain finds parallels in feudalism

Elsethread - when talking abou how the Mongols almost overtook Europe - the claim was made that - to a point - part of the reason the hordes had to stop is that "descentralized" (as opposed to centralized clan-leader-ruled) feudal structures made it hard to make advances.-

... so feudalism came up, as a somewhat advanced form of decentralization. Which was neat.-