Equation 40 · Part 2 · A Chatbot Confessed to Being Built by a Company That Never Trained It
Symbol m
What this part means
m is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
m is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
The borrowing above is not decorative. Dan Sperber’s “epidemiology of representations” argued that a mental representation spreading through a population is better modeled as a chain of alternating public productions and private re-representations than as a single replicating code: “a human population is inhabited by a much wider population of mental representations,” connected by “complex causal chains where mental representations and public productions alternate” [ 13 ] . That is a close description of what this article’s transfer rate measures: a rate of spread through contact, not a rate of copying through a shared germline. The mapped part of the analogy is real and does useful work: a…
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