The essential prisoner's dilemma of humanity: * As a group grows it gets worse at serving each individual's needs. * Large groups outcompete and disrupt small

The essential prisoner's dilemma of humanity: * As a group grows it gets worse at serving each individual's needs. * Large groups outcompete and disrupt small ones. I think the trick is for small groups to be illegible to the outside world. Fish school, birds flock and animals herd partly to avoid predators. I wonder if multiple schools/flocks/herds are always superior to a single one, as long as each of them is above some critical threshold.