Super-linear scaling and collapse

[phantom power]

1. my first reaction to that is...

isn't {3} more or less bounded by {1,2}, which is in turn more or less bounded by {1}?

Assuming that is true, it almost seems optimistic - we get super-linear creative interactions from a sub-linear infrastructure. By the way, I think that would more or less agree with Kauffman's "4th law" of thermodynamics, where the adjacent possible (roughly speaking - the space of possible creativity) grows a lot faster than the number of agents and niches.

Also, it seems to me that we've remarked more than once here in E/E that the initial phase of any logistic curve is exponential. Any finite system saturates in that way.