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Equation 41 · Part 1 · A Chatbot Confessed to Being Built by a Company That Never Trained It

Symbol s

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designed to detect rather than assume.

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A population has an immune system a pathogen must evade; a training corpus has no analogous filter unless a curation team builds one, which is exactly what the selection coefficient s is designed to detect rather than assume.

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…a claim about autonomous contagion. A population has an immune system a pathogen must evade; a training corpus has no analogous filter unless a curation team builds one, which is exactly what the selection coefficient s is designed to detect rather than assume. And Sperber’s own account undercuts any temptation to treat transmission as high-fidelity: representations transform at every hop rather than replicate, which is precisely why this construction needs a mutation rate at all — a well-behaved model of viral…

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