Equation 15 · Part 1 · When Generation Becomes Free, Attention Becomes the Scarce Good
Symbol c_v
What this part means
the historically pushed on.
Its job in the formula
is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Institutions are the mechanism by which societies have historically pushed on .
The passage around this formula
It is worth saying plainly what this framework does not license. It does not permit a claim about how much machine-generated text exists, because that quantity is not reliably measured and estimates of it circulate without provenance — which is itself a small instance of the problem under discussion. The structural argument does not need the number. It needs only the observation that and are set by different mechanisms.
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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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