[extropy-chat] Effective relationships

[Jef Allbright]

Ben Goertzel wrote:
 
> As any good Buckminster Fuller fan should know, to get the 
> famed tetrahedral stability, you'd need *four*, not three...  ;-)

Ouch.  Major embarrassment.

Of course, I should have said the inherent stability of a triangle over
a two dimensional string, but a tetrahedron is sooo cool.

 
> Regarding your main point....  In terms of pragmatic and 
> intellectual synergies, I agree that long-term interpersonal 
> partnerships involving more than two individuals might well 
> be optimal....  However, this doesn't really matter much, 
> because human emotional tendencies are strong, and due to the 
> nature of human emotions interpersonal partnerships with >2 
> members are just not very stable....

Speaking pragmatically, I think you're right.  Now, how to justify a
tetrahedral 4-way relationship...

- Jef