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> The "demand" (number of disputes) increases with the number of interactions, which is roughly the square of the number of people (each pair is another potenti
by wmil 12y ago
> The "demand" (number of disputes) increases with the number of interactions, which is roughly the square of the number of people (each pair is another potential dispute).
It wouldn't actually be a square of the population. There's a fairly low number of interactions a single person can have in a day. Plus most disputes that I can have with a person I don't know are criminal instead of civil.
- SilasX 12y agoCriminal or civil wouldn't matter; both require use of legal infrastructure, though criminal trials are even harder to "opt out of", which makes the process even more choked. (Lock you up for a year just in case you're guilty...) And you have potential interactions with anyone within a given jurisdiction, the same one over which the infrastructure exists. Sure, you don't interact with them all, but you interact with a fraction of them, so the scaling properties are the same.