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These are all highly contestable statements.

the cost of connectivity per link is fixed, as is human effort approximately in cities.

here: these very actions of agents’ exploring, changing, adapting, and experimenting further change the outcome, and they’d have to then re-adapt and re-adjust.

Agent_Zero. Geoff’s work is so fantastic in this space. Cities, just like ecosystems, are more diverse as they get bigger. Why is that? Well, if you think about it from a biological perspective, there’s just more diversity carrying capacity, right? Like if I’m interested in European soccer and I live in a town of 500 people, there’s just no one to

The scaling exponent β measures changes in the magnitude of our quantity of interest,

West and his team were delighted to discover that Kleiber’s negative quarter-power scaling governed the energy and transportation growth of city living.

the size of the population residing in the country’s nth largest city is equal to 1/n of the largest city’s total, corresponding to a power law with a coefficient of –1

By comparison, biological organisms increase efficiency by reducing the power delivery to their cells (i.e., reduce currents), resulting in a slowdown of individual metabolism with scale (Kleiber’s law),