Equation 18 · Part 1 · The Bandwidth of Culture: Transmission Fidelity to 2100
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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.
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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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