Equation 1 · When Generation Becomes Free, Attention Becomes the Scarce Good
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the number of claims placed before some audience in period t , let be that audience’s total attention budget, and let be the average attention cost of verifying one claim. Read the equation part by part below; each part has a contextual explanation and a link to its mathematical background.
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the number of claims placed before some audience in period t , let be that audience’s total attention budget, and let be the average attention cost of verifying one claim.
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An accounting identity makes the consequence visible. Let be the number of claims placed before some audience in period t , let be that audience’s total attention budget, and let be the average attention cost of verifying one claim. The number of claims that can be verified, and the fraction of what arrives that is actually checked, are then
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