Equation 10 · Part 8 · The Jagged Frontier Fallacy: Deconstructing Harvard's Canonical AI Productivity Study
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What this part means
Capital delta attached to a quantity marks a difference between two values of that quantity; the article’s sign convention determines the order.
Its job in the formula
Capital delta attached to a quantity marks a difference between two values of that quantity; the article’s sign convention determines the order.
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The passage around this formula
where each task y(s) can be performed by labor or by an automated system if that task falls within the feasible automated set . Under Hulten’s theorem, the first-order aggregate TFP cost savings from automating a subset of tasks is bounded by the expenditure share of the automated tasks multiplied by the average unit cost reduction: . where is the baseline economic share of task s and = represents the proportional cost reduction achieved on that task [ 2 ] .
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Addition combines quantities; subtraction measures the signed difference between them. Parentheses show what is combined before the rest of the expression is evaluated.
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