[extropy-chat] Threesome as most efficient social arrangement?

[Joel Peter William Pitt]

On 11/24/05, Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
> > Maybe I'm pretending to know something about information theory, but
> > it seems to me that all decisions can be reduced to binary form.
>
> In a world of perfect information, yes, they could be.  The problem is
> that some commonly-used methods of perception tend to blind one to
> certain options - in other words, one does not realize that certain
> decisions can be made.  Ironically, the very act of seeking to reduce
> everything to binary decisions can itself be one of these methods - not
> because of any theoretical impossibility, but simply because the number
> of decisions that a multi-way decision turns into is unwieldly large,
> and therefore human actors dismiss or do not investigate arbitrary sets
> of them - with corresponding arbitrarily poorer-than-optimal results.

I would argue that human actors do consider an huge number of
decisions, however most of the decisions are subconscious and only
those with sufficient relevence present themselves to the a human
actors conscious mind.

-Joel