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Ct+1=ρtCt+It−Lt+MtC_{t+1} = \rho_t C_t + I_t - L_t + M_t

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A language model layer changes which quantity absorbs the shock, and this article proposes an honest, explicitly illustrative extension rather than a fitted one — none of the terms below has an agreed measurement procedure, and the point of writing it down is only to make plain which quantities any claim about the year 2100 is actually a claim about: Ct+1=ρtCt+It−Lt+MtC_{t+1} = \rho_t C_t + I_t - L_t + M_t. MtM_t is the net machine-mediated contribution: positive where model-assisted re-emission genuinely helps a human originator reach or refine an audience they could not otherwise reach, negative where it substitutes synthetic recombination for content that would otherwise have required, and thereby preserved, a human…

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Ct+1C_{t+1}

Symbol C_t+1

CtC_t+1 is the next indexed value. The formula starts from CtC_t and applies the additions and subtractions shown on the right.

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Ct+1=ρtCt+It−Lt+MtC_{t+1} = \rho_t C_t + I_t - L_t + M_t

Equation 11 · Technological Evolution

The Bandwidth of Culture: Transmission Fidelity to 2100

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A language model layer changes which quantity absorbs the shock, and this article proposes an honest, explicitly illustrative extension rather than a fitted one — none of the terms below has an agreed measurement procedure, and the point of writing it down is only to make plain which quantities any claim about the year 2100 is actually a claim about: Ct+1=ρtCt+It−Lt+MtC_{t+1} = \rho_t C_t + I_t - L_t + M_t. MtM_t is the net machine-mediated contribution: positive where model-assisted re-emission genuinely helps a human originator reach or refine an audience they could not otherwise reach, negative where it substitutes synthetic recombination for content that would otherwise have required, and thereby preserved, a human…

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  • CtC_t: the stock of cultural complexity in circulation at time t.
  • ItI_t: genuinely new human innovation entering the pool.
  • LtL_t: loss from forgetting, obsolescence, or population decline.
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