You probably mean that it's not constant but a function of other variables.
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I don't know. You seem to be living in what is the far future for most folks.
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There is no way to retire a concept. You con stop using it, but it will keep popping up, whether you like it or not.
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I view it as a constant, a variable that exists and explains on some level every law or custom that peoples have implemented in order to live in organized groups in excess of it. Ignoring it means your calculations are missing some level of precision. That might be acceptable?
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150 made men in most mafias, last I checked. Anecdotally, go much over, get a lot of turncoats.
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Dunbar’s number refers to how many other minds you can model not group size per se. Unless all made men only know w the other made men personally and nobody else, it’s not an example.
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I still see it as the woebegone metric for practicable democracy. So we basically agree here.
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I find "Dunbar's number" still order-of-mag-approximation useful; and also useful as one of the few turns of phrase that reliably gets people to think about the fact communication changes as the numbers of participants goes up.
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As an order-of-mag approximation, I seem to see Something Changes in companies when they go above "about" that size. The exact number may be different -- say, lower for a remote company, because communication is just plain a little trickier to scale -- but it's close.
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Super useful for understanding early startup modalities, in my experience
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