[FRIAM] Reed's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Owen Densmore wrote:
> During this conversation and a few others I've been involved with  
> recently, I *am* becoming more aware of just how many groups I'm  
> involved in and how they impact the web. And yes, the full power set  
> is a long way from happening, Reed merely is pointing out a term in  
> the equation, one with a *very* small multiplier!
>   
Perhaps the count (2^N) is not so important, but rather that there is a 
fitness associated with each combination of people and their shared 
interests.  (The presence and absence of certain people being as crucial 
as the interests.)
The more available combinations, the more likely it is somewhere in that 
huge set that a few subsets will perform well per their own 
implicitly-defined fitness.