Re: [FRIAM] Dunbar numbers and distributions

[Steve Smith]

Doug - Wow!  You are more of a "best friend" to the FRIAM group than I ever realized... Never again will I poke at you with one of my bendy straws just because I caught you poking at 300+ friends/colleagues/acquaintances with your very cleverly arranged (image balloon animals) bendy straws. Poke away...  it makes (some of) us giggle when you do that. - Steve More in the philosophical flow: Enemies stab you in the back Friends stab you in the front Best friends poke you with bendy straws On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Marcus G. Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote: Douglas Roberts wrote: A good friend will lie for you in court if you committed murder. A true friend will help you bury the body. There's "I trust your judgment" which could mean (say, in an academic setting) that one is capable in some domain or even `thinks right' (capable in many domains), and also the special case of "I trust your judgment" in the social (a.k.a. mafia) sense which means that one understands the relevant social constraints within the clique and relative to other cliques.    Friends/enemies may fail to provide good/bad outcomes when they operate outside certain constrained contexts (fail in the first sense).  The idea of being `trustworthy' implies a social clique with arbitrary values and investments, but also capability. Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

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