Equation 11 · Part 7 · Who Builds 2100? The Demographic Engine of Technological Evolution
addition
addition
What this part means
Add the term after the plus sign to the term or group before it.
Its job in the formula
Add the term after the plus sign to the term or group before it.
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The passage around this formula
The named argument belongs to Philippe Aghion, Benjamin F. Jones, and Charles I. Jones, whose 2017 National Bureau of Economic Research paper works out formally what happens when artificial intelligence automates tasks inside the idea-production function itself, rather than only inside the production of ordinary goods. Their result, worked through with an idea-production function in which a fraction of research tasks can be automated, is that in the case without automation their model collapses to exactly the semi-endogenous relation from Section 3 above — the growth rate of ideas proportional to the growth rate of the human research population, discounted by diminishing returns — matching…
Learn the underlying idea
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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