Equation 11 · Part 3 · Who Builds 2100? The Demographic Engine of Technological Evolution
Symbol g_S
What this part means
the growth rate of human research labor, exactly as before.
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occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.
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where is the growth rate of human research labor, exactly as before, and is a new term generated by the continuous automation of research tasks — one that can be strictly positive even when is zero, because a fixed number of human researchers can still be automated onto an exponentially shrinking share of remaining, not-yet-automated tasks, concentrating human attention ever more narrowly on the residual problems machines cannot yet touch while machines handle a growing share of the rest [ 6 ] .
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…research population, discounted by diminishing returns — matching what they describe as the original point of Jones’s 1995 model [ 6 ] . Automation changes the equation by adding a second term: . where is the growth rate of human research labor, exactly as before, and is a new term generated by the continuous automation of research tasks — one that can be strictly positive even when is zero, because a fixed number of human researchers can still be automated onto an exponentially…
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