David C. Krakauer

An author of sole-2026-llm-cognitive-virus. The source cites him three times:

  • Nowak and Krakauer, PNAS 96, 8028 (1999), placed with the literature on how language transmission shares features with genetic transmission.
  • Krakauer, Nautilus issue 40 (2016), the source of the complementary-versus-competitive cognitive artifact pair that scaffolding-vs-substitution rests on.
  • Krakauer, arXiv:2607.18460 (2026), cited among the extensions toward heterogeneous interacting agents.

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