1/ I don't know the neurology to judge whether or not Dunbar's number makes sense in that context. It always seemed very handwavy to me. But, social relationships take time and effort, the latter of which binds very tightly.
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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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