Equation 16 · Part 2 · The Bandwidth of Culture: Transmission Fidelity to 2100
subscript
subscript
What this part means
The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.
Its job in the formula
A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.
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The passage around this formula
where is ordinary human-to-human transmission fidelity, is the fidelity of a machine-mediated re-emission — empirically lower per the tail-collapse result above — and is the share of newly circulating content, at time t , that is machine-generated rather than human-originated. This decomposition does one useful piece of work: it turns “will culture’s transmission fidelity fall this century” into the answerable, if still hard, empirical question of how moves, and it is that question the scenarios below are actually scenarios about.
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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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