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> the bubble > the jenga tower I am not so sure about these narratives anymore.

• Ygg2 5d ago
  Both bubble and Jenga tower are examples of unstable systems that can persist for an unexpectedly long time.
  • hn993302 5d ago
    They're good analogies. It's possible to keep a Jenga tower going forever, just extremely difficult once it reaches the point of being all middle pieces.
    • pseudohadamard 5d ago
      Also easier if you can hold up bits of it with strings from the ceiling, which is what the EPA is doing for data centers here.
    • Fargren 4d ago
      It's certainly not possible to keep a Jenga Tower growing forever. For each floor you add you need to leave at least one piece in a lower floor. Eventually you run out of pieces. It's possible to "complete" a Jenga Tower, but at that point it has to stop growing.
      • thfuran 4d ago
        But it doesn't, strictly speaking, have to stop going. The bottom floor could be removed and placed at the top.
• ocodo 4d ago
  Do you look at the current setup and see stability? Or is the "jenga tower" already a pile of blocks on the ground.