Friendship is a portfolio decision, not a social-skill decision

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Most adults optimize the wrong axis — they try to make MORE friends when the real lever is moving fewer relationships from the utility/pleasure tier to the virtue tier. The math is constrained: 8-12 intimate slots (Dunbar's layer 1), 200+ hours to develop a virtue-tier friendship, 50% mortality reduction if the slot…

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