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Equation 6 · Part 2 · Comparing the Main Approaches to AI Governance and Regulation

subscript

tit_i
subscript

What this part means

The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.

Its job in the formula

A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.

The passage around this formula

where tit_i is time-in-force for approach i . When tit_i differs by an order of magnitude or more across the set compared, as it does here, no amount of careful measurement of coverage or enforcement intensity fixes the fact that the outcome variable has not had time to be generated for every entrant. This is why no figure in this article, or elsewhere in this publication, ranks these regimes by effectiveness.

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Learn the underlying idea

A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.

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