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Recurrence across contexts beats volume

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The Payload: A Short Story (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

A pattern at negligible concentration in a corpus can become a deep feature if it recurs across thousands of unrelated contexts — quoted, contested, translated and reinterpreted. Influence tracks structural unavoidability, not share of tokens.

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Recurrence across contexts beats volume
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