Parasocial Dunbar Hacking - by Mathew Crawford
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The Information Wars Part IX
"We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors, people we deal with, and so on." -Alexander McCall Smith Dunbar's number is a theoretical limit, often quoted as 150, of the number of meaningful relationships humans can manage in our large-ish primate brains (or neocortices). The idea originated with Professor Robin Dunbar and is consistent both with observed prehistoric tribal sizes and a progression of primate group sizes among primates. We…
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