Equation 1 · Apprenticeship as Information Transfer
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A useful way to make the retention condition inspectable is to write the accumulated complexity after n transmission steps as a product of per-step fidelities plus whatever is added along the way:
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- [1] What is cumulative cultural evolution? ↗
- [2] Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture ↗
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