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…but we're talking dunbarish numbers of people; they can't really leverage any meaningful level of exploitation pacific coast first nations are another example; historically i don't think communities got much bigger than about 5000 before bifurcating
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nation states with standardized laws and languages afford the scaling of social networks that would otherwise be disconnected, and with that, power disparity, but it's possible to imagine some change in the information environment that "flattens the curve" so to speak
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I would argue that bigger orgs/cities are socially unnatural but productively superior in some domains, which is why they emerged and stuck, ~10k years ago. So if decentralisation is to be durable it would have comparable productivity at its core. Ie the moon launch example.
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And R2D2 was interesting too. Clearly a technical protocol droid and a character who would be written as a human hacker today, but was conceived interestingly as a spacecraft targeting module. Or at least he fit the expansion slot. Not a job per se, but a precise affordance.
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