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by cudgy 252 days ago
Maybe with your research into social patterns of nature, you can figure out a way around this issue or at least approaches that might work to increase the social transaction depth for humans.

I wonder, though, whether the issue with humans coming together on a global basis for common issues like labor, has less to do with cerebellum size (or individual weakness) and more to do with active interference from governments and corporations to prevent these alliances from forming.

If people are upset and angry about more fringe issues, it is possible to distract them from the impactful issues they may agree on like wage growth, education, healthcare. I believe until people start to realize this tactic and recognize it and counteract it, the average human will continue to lose ground.

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>increase the social transaction depth for humans.

Unfortunately my conclusion is that the root issue is the biological limit and unless you can increase dunbar number from 150 to 8 billion it’s not going to matter what other structures exist

It would require:

1. Enthusiastic, voluntary subordination of every individual to a collective goal 2. Zero defectors 3. All information and processing would be collective

Ultimately it would be an entirely different species that looks like the Borg from Star Trek

Fwiw that’s basically what I’m building at our company