Small Spaces by Simon Sarris. Why culture is created in small places
anon 0x444 said in #2540 1mo ago:
Hyperstition
Hyperstition
anon 0x449 said in #2547 4w ago:
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The more dense a population the more cliquish people become. This is due to the degree of separation involved. So think a highschool with 500 kids vs highschool with 1000 kids. In the former compared to the latter, within a certain grade everyone knows everyone else. Or otherwise knows someone who knows someone. There is at most one degree of separation, so the in-group out-group dynamic is much less severe. Relationships between strangers are less impersonal because even if they don't know you they know someone who knows you. This allows information to transfer more freely between individuals.
This dynamic is more common in towns or smaller cities, which allows dissemination and competition within a comparatively freer market. Such that the best ideas rise to the top quicker.
Previously I have spoken about information transfer primarily at the scale of individuals. Now let us deal with settlements. Cities are logistical hubs for dissemination of information. Think a central node connected to every other node. You can transfer information from node A to node D but its much faster to transfer the same information from node A to the central node and have the central node disseminate to every other node in its surroundings.
Cities are naturally more cliquish by its nature of having more people and thus greater degrees of separation. A successful city requires high trust to properly functional. High trust working as a sort of memetic lubricant preventing people from becoming too cliquish. Cities will naturally develop unitarian universalism over time. Unitarian universalism being the belief set that facilitates as much productivity as possible.
In this post I am primarily considering cultural practices and technology such as music and what have you as opposed to material technology.
I have not factored in the internet. The internet has heavy self selection pressure. Where people similar to one another tend to gather in the same internet spaces. It also disseminates information much quicker than anything in person. Although from my experience something is lost when your not interacting in person.
These are just some thoughts of mine. I don't know if they mean anything.
The more dense a population the more cliquish people become. This is due to the degree of separation involved. So think a highschool with 500 kids vs highschool with 1000 kids. In the former compared to the latter, within a certain grade everyone knows everyone else. Or otherwise knows someone who knows someone. There is at most one degree of separation, so the in-group out-group dynamic is much less severe. Relationships between strangers are less impersonal because even if they don't know you they know someone who knows you. This allows information to transfer more freely between individuals.
This dynamic is more common in towns or smaller cities, which allows dissemination and competition within a comparatively freer market. Such that the best ideas rise to the top quicker.
Previously I have spoken about information transfer primarily at the scale of individuals. Now let us deal with settlements. Cities are logistical hubs for dissemination of information. Think a central node connected to every other node. You can transfer information from node A to node D but its much faster to transfer the same information from node A to the central node and have the central node disseminate to every other node in its surroundings.
Cities are naturally more cliquish by its nature of having more people and thus greater degrees of separation. A successful city requires high trust to properly functional. High trust working as a sort of memetic lubricant preventing people from becoming too cliquish. Cities will naturally develop unitarian universalism over time. Unitarian universalism being the belief set that facilitates as much productivity as possible.
In this post I am primarily considering cultural practices and technology such as music and what have you as opposed to material technology.
I have not factored in the internet. The internet has heavy self selection pressure. Where people similar to one another tend to gather in the same internet spaces. It also disseminates information much quicker than anything in person. Although from my experience something is lost when your not interacting in person.
These are just some thoughts of mine. I don't know if they mean anything.
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