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Equation 11 · Part 6 · The Bandwidth of Culture: Transmission Fidelity to 2100

Symbol M_t

Ct+1=ρtCt+It−Lt+MtC_{t+1} = \rho_t C_t + I_t - L_t + M_t
MtM_t

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MtM_t is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.

Its job in the formula

MtM_t is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.

The passage around this formula

…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: Ct+1=ρtCt+It−Lt+MtC_{t+1} = \rho_t C_t + I_t - L_t + M_t. MtM_t 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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A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.

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