Equation 34 · Part 1 · The Bandwidth of Culture: Transmission Fidelity to 2100
Symbol M_t
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is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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…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 — , , , — 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 wider channels for…
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