Kinda like if there would civilisational Dunbar Limit? Language barriers sound like an effective means of fracturing, but would still need to be upheld somehow. The population and capital distribution per language might still be a nontrivial problem.
Hmm. The field is too 'hip' thus bloated, and the more imaginative of us don't have the time for dicking around with art beacuse of increased knowledge requirement and competition?
What deffinitions do we generally use?
Interesting idea. I intuit it as a more continuous problem (despite being a narcissist myself) as living in increasing sized groups dilutes the pool on an individual level, too much communication required to stay up to date and similar stuff. Kinda like a civilizational Dunbar Limit. (As an aunicornist in world view, feel this more akin to sorting somehow. You can't get below a certain O(f(n)) efficiency per added units).
Interesting proposition. I always thought that predicting stuff like weather was more of a question of incomplete data/ too many factors (is precise nanontech like this?). I mean we might get a results by a compromise between a ton of measurement devices (internet of things style) and some useful statistical approximations, but the computational need to accuracy ratio seems a bit much.
[sidenote:]Also, the post made me think about having little to no idea about career choice, and gave me the idea of working on this very question, on a higher level (mathemathics of human resources, I guess)... fucking overdue coding assignments, though. And my CS program in general.
Hmm. I want to look up how the guys did thermodynamics and such. I doubt I could think of anything new, but using these tools in all sorts of different scenarios might be of use.