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Some random gemini page led to a brace of fine papers, "Why we live in hierarchies: a quantitative treatise" and "Emergence of hierarchy in cost-driven growth of spatial network" which assuming no bitrot might be found at or near
gemini://soviet.circumlunar.space/sweater/hindsight/2021-05-05-we-dont-need-programmable-money.gmi
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.01744
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3670315/
The first paper has various interesting points, such as the ability of a few to influence the direction of a much larger group, the difference between dominance and cultural hierarchies in humans, and so forth. The second offers a fairly simple means to lay out neat graphs in space and a parameter to tune that changes the graph from a star (all roads only lead to Rome) to a tree. Probably the best (most interesting) results can be had from some value between these extremes.
https://github.com/thrig/ministry-of-silly-vaults/tree/master/spatial-network
At the very least I have a new X root image for my new laptop.
