slatestarscratchpad:birdblogwhichisforbirds:apricops:Imagine being told “you can escape the wrath of
slatestarscratchpad:birdblogwhichisforbirds:apricops:Imagine being told “you can escape the wrath of the inquisition if you can prove that the witnesses would have reason to slander you, but we’ll never tell you the names of those witnesses” and you respond with “no problem, here’s my list of one-hundred and fifty-two mortal enemies”and it works@etirabys Dunbar’s number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person.[1][2] This number was first proposed in the 1990s by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size.[3] By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed that humans can comfortably maintain only 150 stable relationships. I have 0 stable relationships and Dunbar’s number of mortal enemies -- source link
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