Equation 11 · Part 6 · The Bandwidth of Culture: Transmission Fidelity to 2100
Symbol M_t
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is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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…one — none of the terms below has an agreed measurement procedure, and the point of writing it down is only to make plain which quantities any claim about the year 2100 is actually a claim about: . is the net machine-mediated contribution: positive where model-assisted re-emission genuinely helps a human originator reach or refine an audience they could not otherwise reach, negative where it substitutes synthetic recombination for content that would otherwise have required, and thereby…
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