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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by scrollaway on Monday February 15, 2016 @02:14PM (#11105245)
In computer science, when we have too much data to process at once, we shard it. We separate it into manageable chunks and we stop looking at every single data point and just at summaries.

I was using this very analogy to explain the advent of CCG "formats" (MTG, Hearthstone) a few days ago and it seems like the same analogy could be used here. There is a point where a discussion/dicussion room contains too much data to be manageable and the only way to fix that is to break it up into chunks.

We see it on Reddit, too, with subreddits becoming "too big" and naturally breaking up into smaller subreddits.

I suspect there's a universal truth hidden in there somewhere.

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Re:Too many people have peed in the pool by Loughla on Monday February 15, 2016 @05:59PM (#11106709)
It's the upper limit on our ability to process information. Whether it's data, or whether it's a social circle. I believe we will (until AI is a thing) be constrained and will fail, simply because of our poor ability to store and process information as humans.
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