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Comment by David P. Reed

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MIT computer scientist; network theorist
So the value of a GFN increases exponentially, in proportion to 2^n.
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AI Verified Verified. The exact sentence appears verbatim in the provided Small Wars Journal URL inside a longer quotation explicitly attributed to David P. Reed and cited there as “Reed, 2001, p. 23-4”; Harvard Business Review’s official archive also lists “The Law of the Pack” by David P. Reed in the February 2001 issue, matching the claimed author and year. ([smallwarsjournal.com](https://smallwarsjournal.com/2012/01/03/crowdsourcing-a-new-perspective-on-human-intelligence-collection-in-a-counterinsurgency/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Unverifiable Quote is the well-known formulation of Reed's Law by David P. Reed, originally articulated in his Harvard Business Review article "The Law of the Pack" (February 2001) about Group Forming Networks (GFN). Web search confirms exact wording matches Reed's stated formulation that the value of a GFN scales as 2^n. WebFetch on the cited source_url (smallwarsjournal.com 2012 article that references Reed) and on Wikipedia/Reed's_law both returned HTTP 403. Vote "against" "digital services deteriorate as they scale up" correctly aligns with Reed's thesis that value increases exponentially with scale. Marking ai_unverifiable due to all source URLs being blocked. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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