Nick Szabo 🔑 on Twitter: "Here's my generalization Dunbar number ~= 150 >= (number of "friends") * (fractional extent to which person is actually your friend) Social networks have taken weak ties to fractional friends to a new level. https://t.co/DwNQ1hwIHF… https://t.co/Nio7lhmaz0"

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‏ @NickSzabo4

Here's my generalization Dunbar number ~= 150 >= (number of "friends") * (fractional extent to which person is actually your friend) Social networks have taken weak ties to fractional friends to a new level. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_ties https://twitter.com/TaylorPearsonMe/status/1152346355790229504 …

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Replying to @arjunblj @MustStopMurad @spencernoon

I always read Dunbar as a limit of humans psychology thing, not a limit of tech thing. Is the number expanded or have we just distributed a zero sum amount of trust in a more horizontal way? Not sure, could go either way.

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1. Dan Talmon‏ @dan_talmon Jul 19
  
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  Fractional Friends That's a powerful parallel from the financial world to the social one Emotional inflation
  
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1. de-cen-tra-liz-ed‏ @greg_not_so Jul 19
  
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  Makes sense as I stopped reading someone else's blog today after they brought up 'hundreds of closest friends' - FB made that relationship as cheap as it gets
  
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1. arie grootvoet‏ @AGrootvoet Jul 19
  
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  also socialism fails because of dunbar number! a social system has a hard limitation of 150 , that's why it can never work. game theory works with groups > 150.
  
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1. jonlorusso ‏ @jonlorusso Jul 19
  
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  fractional reserve friending
  
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1. O₿iWan‏ @ObiWanKenoBit Jul 20
  
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  Social networks try to game the Van Der Waals forces of personal interaction by shifting the "intermolecular" distance fooling one to think every interaction is equally meaningful and lasting.
  
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1. Joshua J. Bouw‏ @JoshuaJBouw Jul 23
  
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  Can we be fractional friends with weak ties Nick?
  
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1. Larry Chiang @duck9‏ @LarryChiang Jul 19
  
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  Nick. Do you know @Auren? He gave me a book that talked about this exact networking issue
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1. Prof. Hash‏ @hashamadeus Jul 19
  
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  The Brand is now your best friend.
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1. crypto_jaguar‏ @shadowjagman Jul 21
  
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  Fractional reserve friends
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1. Stackmore ‏ @1971Bubble Jul 20
  
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  I sometimes feel like you should be named as the co-author of the book Homo Sapiens.
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1. AlbrechtHeremans‏ @BrechtHeremans Jul 20
  
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  Destinguishe between a 'friend' and a person you know of.?
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1. Mark O'Carroll‏ @mark_o_carroll Jul 19
  
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  Is that good or bad ?
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