Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Mar 13, 2016Direct attempts to model social capital dynamics with "currency" metaphors ("like" counts, whuffie) are not credible imo.24
nikete@nikete·Mar 13, 2016Replying to @vgr@vgr I tried to work on this from learning theory: is there a social capital production function? whats its intrinsic dimensionality?2
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @nikete@nikete See last tweet. I think it is 2^S... the dimensionality of the powerset of the social group9:09 PM · Mar 13, 2016
nikete@nikete·Mar 13, 2016Replying to @vgr@vgr I think 2^S is a upper bound in that model, there could be lower dimension that preseve the stucture; types within social group1
nikete@nikete·Mar 13, 2016Replying to @vgr@vgr or is your argument that to accumulate social capital some "uinque snowflake" characteristic is needed in individual?