2/ One way to increase the capacity (i.e. number of maintainable relationships) is by making the social experience a little more shallow and less one-on-one: Alice isn't an intimate/friend, but she's a familiar type T.
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3/ This templating scheme lets us "know" and interact with a larger number of people. That can be very good for cooperative purposes! But it also comes with errors that can be both costly and not borne uniformly.
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4/ Frustrating the reliability of those templates — rendering them less useful as short-cuts in time and cognition — can help dissolve the associated errors. That's very good, too!
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5/ It also changes the social capacity. I don't think it *has* to shrink it. But cognitive misers we are, we'll reach for new ones. So unless our information environment and institutions offer better shortcuts and means of {cooper, collabor}-ation, we'll keep hitting those limits
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Seems like one might also force ones social presentation into a template in order to render oneself rapidly comprehensible to new people.

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*looks at the t-shirt I'm wearing that says hack the planet* "Yes."
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