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Bill Gardner's avatar

This paper discusses Gopnik's views and may be of interest: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04854.pdf.

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Cultural transmission, sometimes in the absence of semantics, is precisely what was envisaged by Susan Blackmore in her book 'The Meme Machine'. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meme_Machine). In this sense, LLMs are the ultimate meme machine. I turned my comment on your other related article on cultural theory into a full post here:

https://sphelps.substack.com/p/from-genomes-to-memomes

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