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theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number

Shit, forget phones and AI, let’s go even more basic. Your brain still has essentially the same neocortex that people around 250,000 years ago had, and it is evolved to only be capable of processing/understanding a maximum of around 150 interconnected social relationships, the number of people a hunter-gatherer 250,000 years ago could expect to know and interact with over their lifetime.

We haven’t had time to adjust to meeting and knowing more than about 150 people total in your lifetime. I had like 500 facebook friends as a teenager and they were all people I knew outside of social media… Our current lives are extremely different than the life that our brain is prepared for.

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