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

[Joel Pitt]

david wrote:
> Jef Allbright 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
>> the case of the three individuals, I imagine them brainstorming a list
>> of possible actions and then ranking them via  a process of binary
>> comparisons e.g. better/worse.
>>
>> Does that make sense to you?
>>
>>  
>>
> Would you like a chocolate,  strawberry or vanilla icecream ?

The simplest answer of course is "Yes"

("Tea or coffee?", "Yes please!").

-Joel

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What a strange machine man is. You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and 
radishes, and out come sighs, laughter and dreams.
         - Nikos Kazantzakis