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Equation 31 · Part 1 · The Bandwidth of Culture: Transmission Fidelity to 2100

Symbol rho_t

ρt\rho_t
ρt\rho_t

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…in intelligence rather than what it actually is: a story about a transmission system’s parameters, and who is deciding how to set them. The recurrence in the fourth section names the free variables plainly — ρt\rho_t , sts_t , ItI_t , MtM_t — and every one of them is, at least in part, a matter of institutional and economic choice: what gets filtered before training, what gets labeled, what gets paid for as verified rather than accepted as ambient. A species that spent six thousand years building faster and…

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