Equation 28 · Part 1 · Humanity Has Always Been a Human–Technology System
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Generative AI changes both terms in the cultural ratchet. It can increase innovation by recombining representations, translating across domains, and lowering experimentation cost. It can increase retention by making archives queryable and procedures easier to reconstruct. It can also increase loss when generated summaries replace primary records, model-mediated access becomes unavailable, or communities cease maintaining the expertise needed to detect subtle errors.
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