Google Gemini
The cost of the "monitoring the monitors" problem. Each new layer of management requires its own administrative support and oversight, causing a recursive cost increase that spirals rapidly.
Google Gemini
Network Reciprocity (Martin Nowak)
- The Finding: Cooperation survives in "spatial" or "viscous" populations where cooperators form clusters (small pockets). If you mix the population thoroughly (simulating a globalized, large-scale society), defectors destroy cooperators.
- Relevance: Structure matters more than size. A large economy works only if it
Google Gemini
AI fundamentally shifts the point where diminishing returns to management kick in
Google Gemini
cooperation is not a permanent state but a dynamic equilibrium that requires constant maintenance—easier to manage in small, adaptable groups than large, rigid ones.