As far as I understand the Berkeley community has more than Dunbar’s number of members and I don’t think that’s a real problem. Not everybody has to know each other.
Even in a city like Berlin not everybody in the LW/EA sphere knows each other.
With 263 people our LW Berlin mailing list is also over Dunbar’s number and our meetup group has also has 339. Not everybody who subscribes to either lives in Berlin but it shows how you always have many people who are somehow connected even if they don’t come to the regular meetup.
Villages and cities has synergy that gets created even with much more than Dunbar’s number of people.
That said, I think Berlin is great and I would be happy if you and other people move here (I’m currently organizing our main monthly meetup).
As far as I understand the Berkeley community has more than Dunbar’s number of members and I don’t think that’s a real problem. Not everybody has to know each other.
Even in a city like Berlin not everybody in the LW/EA sphere knows each other.
With 263 people our LW Berlin mailing list is also over Dunbar’s number and our meetup group has also has 339. Not everybody who subscribes to either lives in Berlin but it shows how you always have many people who are somehow connected even if they don’t come to the regular meetup.
Villages and cities has synergy that gets created even with much more than Dunbar’s number of people.
That said, I think Berlin is great and I would be happy if you and other people move here (I’m currently organizing our main monthly meetup).