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Cultural reinforcement learning: a framework for modeling cumulative culture on a limited channel

2023-05-19

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<p>Humans' capacity for cumulative culture is remarkable: we can build up vast bodies of knowledge over generations. Communication, particularly via language, is a key component of this process. Previous work has described language as enabling posterior passing, where one Bayesian agent transmits a posterior distribution to the next. In practice, we cannot exactly copy our beliefs into the minds of others---we mus...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/q4tz8

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