This is how I feel about navigating the Bay Area compared to NY.
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The Bay Area is easy if you just avoid the city proper
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London = Boston.
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Oh yeah Boston is hard to navigate too
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So you're talking spatial complexity burden or something else like social order complexity burden? I felt the latter more than former.
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All of it that needs computing
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Illegibility has benefits. Particularly when you’re building stable cultural heterogeneity. :)
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*If* it works at all... survivorship bias is strong among cities that aspire to be large. And how come you're up so early.
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London and LA are very similar large organisms made up of many small villages that grew together, but I think that because so much of London travel occurs underground there’s no chance to piece together the whole in an understandable way vs traversing LA by car
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What about Tokyo? It's massive and similarly a tangle of small villages traveled to most often by train, and yet it only takes a few days getting around to start piecing it together. I don't find this a satisfactory explanation.
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