Equation 3 · Part 1 · When Generation Becomes Free, Attention Becomes the Scarce Good
Symbol A_t
What this part means
the nothing pushes usefully on.
Its job in the formula
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Nothing pushes usefully on .
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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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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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