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first is that it can be hard to find what you’re looking for in an ocean of uncontrolled information, fed by countless free-flowing rivers of contribution. The core solves this search
To hold large volumes of knowledge and knowhow, therefore, we need large networks of people. Yet the relationship between the size of a network and the volume of knowledge and knowhow that it can hold not only makes the accumulation of knowledge and knowhow difficult but also implies that moving or copying the knowledge and knowhow embodied in a la
... See moreHowever, if for whatever reason the population of these social animals declines, the benefits can quickly go away, making them more susceptible to collapse. But if the population grows too quickly, and there are too many animals living in too small a space, then overpopulation negates their advantages—which
Personbytes are fundamental in the sense that the accumulation of a volume of knowledge and knowhow that is smaller than a personbyte is constrained only by individual limitations (including experience and social learning), whereas the accumulation of an amount of knowledge and knowhow that is larger than a personbyte is also constrained by collect
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