Equation 20 · The Bandwidth of Culture: Transmission Fidelity to 2100
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The claim. By 2100, transmission-layer improvements — faster search across a shared corpus, machine-assisted synthesis across disciplines, and lower-friction connection between distant specialists — have reversed the long documented decline in research productivity per researcher, raising in the recurrence faster than or a falling can offset it.
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- [16] Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find? ↗
- [4] Innovation in the Collective Brain ↗
- [15] Artificial Artificial Artificial Intelligence: Crowd Workers Widely Use Large Language Models for Text Production Tasks ↗
- [14] Future of AI Models: A Computational Perspective on Model Collapse ↗
- [13] Will We Run Out of Data? Limits of LLM Scaling Based on Human-Generated Data ↗
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