Luís M. A. Bettencourt
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
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You throw almost anything at a city, if it's not too disruptive, and people learn how to deal with it.
Yeah, and I think we don't have quite a very clear-cut taxonomy, but allow me just to...
Just a quick job at that.
I think it's interesting to think about complex systems that are limited in that sense, that are not open-ended.
So an organism, we die, right?
So we age and we die, for example.
And so typically an organism, therefore, cannot keep going.
Whereas if you look at the ecosystems or a higher level ecosystem,
And if you look at a city, again, a high level relative to individuals, then you have a system that's open-ended.
The people that you'll see 20 years later are not the same.
The buildings may have changed.
Many of the pieces will have changed.
But the city's still there, right?
So we have cities that have been there, you know, and ecosystems that have been there for ecosystems for many millions of years, although they change slowly, and cities certainly for thousands of years in some cases.
So that's kind of interesting.
It means that the pieces individually are not essential, right?
The roles they play relative to each other can change a bit, but they are more essential.
But those can be filled by newcomers and exiters and so on.
Well, I think everyone has their opinion about that, so I encourage people to write the pros and cons in their little cheat sheet.
But let me kind of dodge it a little bit and try to answer it in a way that's maybe not so parochial.
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