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That people almost always self-organize into structured organizations gives me hope for humanity. Social structures provide people with means to make life easi
by rmah 2y ago
That people almost always self-organize into structured organizations gives me hope for humanity. Social structures provide people with means to make life easier. They provide support and a guide on how to accomplish things without having to worry about all the details or the "big picture". And, of course, no organization is perfect. Hoping for perfection is not only folly, it is the enemy of good.
- KineticLensman 2y agoCheck out Dunbar's Number [0] (you might already know this). It's a theoretical constraint on the size of successful human groupings where everyone knows of everyone else, and is approximately the size of company-sized (in the military sense) subunits. Of course, these have very explicit structure, even if they contain 'characters' [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
- bokoharambe 2y agoDefinitely read the criticisms section of this article, because it shows how strange and unsound the whole notion is.
- nonrandomstring 2y agoA group with superpowers is one that can spontaneously and optimally reconfigure structure. Including dissolving and spontaneously re-emerging. Group dynamic arrangements grow quickly, combinations for without rank, permutations for ordered ones, both factorial. Then there's distributing N tasks over M people. Lots of unique and special ways build a team, if it's able to change.