SarahC comments on Exploitation and cooperation in ecology, government, business, and AI - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 30 August 2010 09:24:00PM 0 points [-]

The issue isn't the single special case of the star graph. If you have a graph that is very centralized -- a few "central" nodes have a lot of neighbors, and most of the edges are between "central" and "periphery" nodes -- that's not a star, but it's "star-like." Are such graphs nested or aren't they?

I would imagine that certain kinds of exploitative human relationships are "star-like."

Comment author: PhilGoetz 31 August 2010 04:06:34PM *  0 points [-]

I would imagine that certain kinds of exploitative human relationships are "star-like."

Yes, definitely. Sorry, I don't know the answer. The authors didn't provide an email address, and neither of their University homepages have any contact information. They provided actual physical addresses, but I'm far too lazy for that.