Equation 24 · The Bandwidth of Culture: Transmission Fidelity to 2100
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Assumptions. That machine-mediated synthesis functions as -raising augmentation of human researchers’ own idea generation for a large share of research domains, rather than as -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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