I'm not denying that we may end up with several darknets which are only
loosely connected. But I see no reason to expect them to be tiny.

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 03:21:36PM -0400, Colin wrote:
> >
> >I don't see why (in the long run). The properties of human networks  
> >are
> >such that I would expect darknets to go quickly from having a few  
> >links
> >to having many links.
> 
> I'm not sure that's true... People have lots of links in their social  
> circle, hell, in their society...
> How many people do you know in China? How many do you know, that know  
> people in China?
> How many in Russia?
> 
> As far as I know, no real world tests have ever gone across multiple  
> countries and cultures like that...
> (Not to mention that Milgrim's tests mostly weren't very reliable to  
> begin with)
> 
> -Colin
> 
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