The Artificiality Imagining Summit 2024 gathered an (oversold!) group of creatives and innovators to imaging a hopeful future with AI. Tickets for our 2025 Summit will be on sale soon!
This week we dive into learning in the intimacy economy as well as the future of personhood with Jamie Boyle. Plus: read about Steve Sloman's upcoming presentation at the Imagining Summit and Helen's Book of the Week.
Explore the shift from the attention economy to the intimacy economy, where AI personalizes learning experiences based on deeper human connections and trust.
A research review of The Social Brain by Tracey Camilleri, Samantha Rockey & Robin Dunbar.
You may be familiar with the Dunbar Number, a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom one can maintain stable social relationships, typically estimated around 150. The Social Brain is a comprehensive expansion of this idea.
What it’s about: A combo of the latest from evolutionary psychology and leadership to explain how to get the most our of groups.
Why it matters: Going deeper on the science of our social brains will give you new insights into the way groups work, especially different sized groups in different contexts.
Highlight: The Dunbar Graph: go beyond understanding of the Dunbar Number (150, the maximum number of relationships we can manage based on the size of our brains) to understand states of stability in different group sizes: 1.5 (intimates), 5 (close friends), 15 (best friends) up to 5000 (known faces).
Read it if: You want deep insight into how groups work.
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