Social scaling is generally understood in terms of the number of people in a coordination regime, so a way to get 1200 people working together is more advanced than a way to get 12 people working together, other things being equal.
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But an important way other things are NOT equal is intimacy. 2 people working together in a marriage is more intimate coordination than 2 people paired up for a casual tennis tournament. Let’s call this density rather than intimacy. Social scaling = (size)*(density).
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Historically, industrialization monotonically increased size of the coordinating group but for a century actually lowered density. Humans could relate to each other via more cartoonish other-models. This hit a trough around the 1960s with the Organization Man set of archetypes.
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Since then, to coordinate better has meant developing better mental models of people you’re coordinating with. From “cartoon” to “healthy marriage” levels. Increasing density.
Moore’s Law of social scaling: the density of coordination doubles every generation.
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Gen X is 2x more densely coordinated than Boomers, Millennials are 2x Gen X and 4x Boomers. Zoomers are 8x Boomers.
Size has evolved interestingly in recent decades. It’s gone barbell. As a company, Facebook is 43,000 employees. As a platform it has 2.37b AUs.
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