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Equation 23 · Part 1 · The Bandwidth of Culture: Transmission Fidelity to 2100

Symbol I_t

ItI_t
ItI_t

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the raising.

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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 ItI_t in the recurrence faster than MtM_t or a falling ρt\rho_t can offset it.

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Assumptions. That machine-mediated synthesis functions as ItI_t -raising augmentation of human researchers’ own idea generation for a large share of research domains, rather than as MtM_t -style substitution that merely repackages existing ideas faster without adding genuinely novel ones; and that the collective-brain mechanism — more connected minds sustaining more complex, cumulative culture [ 4 ] — extends to human-machine collaboration rather than being specific to human-to-human networks.

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