Luís M. A. Bettencourt

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So what Scott thought of doing was to measure basically monument construction.

Turns out people at different times care more about doing different things.

Okay, yeah.

So that works very well.

So that is also super linear in this very same sense.

So we've done this then in a bunch of other episodes, including Rome and Greece and so on.

The Romans seem to have cities that had, so it works very well.

The exponents for Roman cities are slightly different.

And I think they have to do with the fact that the infrastructure networks don't go all the way to each house and so on.

So they have these large blocks and they're very dense.

And their cities, even though they had tall buildings, they don't have two-dimensional infrastructure.

Sorry, three-dimensional infrastructure.

They don't have highways and tunnels as much as we do.

But basically, you have a very similar scaling.

It's more like one-third.

So the one-sixth is a little difficult to be the first thing to explain, so I have to take it one step back.

Sure.

The first thing that you get most of the effect by getting an exponent that's more like one-third.

And the idea is the following.

So this is a little bit like the kind of culture physicists like to do.

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