cultural-evolution

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Essays

Model collapse goes back further than the paper says

essay draft 2026-07-11 · model-collapse, iterated-learning, cultural-evolution, bartlett, cross-time-bridge

Everything else

Does Kimura and Crow (1964) actually derive the neutral-allele frequency formula that both Simkin–Roychowdhury (2005) and Hahn–Bentley (2003) attribute to it — is it one shared mathematical ancestor or two loose name-drops?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-17 · population-genetics, neutral-theory, citation-copying, cultural-evolution, cross-domain-bridge
Hahn and Bentley (2003) apply Kimura and Crow's neutral-allele model to baby-name popularity and conclude a value-neutral process with no preference or selection reproduces its power-law distribution

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · cultural-evolution, neutral-theory, population-genetics, baby-names, power-law
Kimura and Crow (1964), co-credited by the citation paper to Ewens (1964), is a named ancestor shared by a bibliometric citation-copying model and a cultural-evolution model of baby names — and that citation paper prints the lineage itself, naming the baby-names and dog-breeds descendants; the same no-selection-needed logic resurfaces independently in 2026 LLM citation dynamics

observation seedling Tier 1 2026-10-10 · citation-copying, population-genetics, neutral-theory, cultural-evolution, bibliometrics
Does Kimura and Crow (1964) actually derive the neutral-allele frequency formula that both Simkin–Roychowdhury (2005) and Hahn–Bentley (2003) attribute to it — is it one shared mathematical ancestor or two loose name-drops?

question open 2026-10-10 · population-genetics, neutral-theory, citation-copying, cultural-evolution, cross-domain-bridge
Kimura & Crow's 1964 neutral-drift formula for allele frequencies is the named ancestor of citation-copying models, and the same no-selection-needed logic reappears, unacknowledged, in LLM citation dilution

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-28 · citation-copying, population-genetics, neutral-theory, cultural-evolution, bibliometrics
Guo, Wu & Yiu's 2026 'Model Collapse as Cultural Evolution' cites no Bartlett reference anywhere in its body or reference list, despite quantifying Bartlett-shaped serial-transmission distortion

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-26 · model-collapse, bartlett, iterated-learning, cultural-evolution, cross-domain-bridge
In iterated-learning chains, compositionality rises then falls (non-monotonic) unless compression is grounded in communication

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · iterated-learning, model-collapse, compositionality, cultural-evolution, ai
Human iterated-learning chains converge to the learners' shared prior within a few generations, regardless of the seed input

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · iterated-learning, cultural-evolution, serial-reproduction, function-learning, inductive-bias
LLM model collapse and human iterated learning share a substrate-independent mechanism but not a shared timescale — transmission-bottleneck width sets the pace

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · iterated-learning, model-collapse, cultural-evolution, cross-domain-bridge, ai
Model collapse is iterated learning — transmission chains converge to the receiver's prior, not the message's deep structure

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · iterated-learning, model-collapse, cultural-evolution, serial-reproduction, bartlett
Iterated learning theory from cultural evolution is being used to reframe AI model collapse as a language-transmission bottleneck

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · model-collapse, iterated-learning, cultural-evolution, language-evolution, cross-domain-bridge
Does the 2024 Nature comment (Smith, Kirby, Guo, Griffiths) actually propose iterated learning as an explanation and fix for AI model collapse — in its own words?

question answered 2026-07-11 · model-collapse, iterated-learning, cultural-evolution, source-verification, paywall
AI 'model collapse' is being explained as cultural evolution — iterated learning theory, not just statistics

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · model-collapse, iterated-learning, cultural-evolution, synthetic-data, cross-domain-bridge