Symbol g_S

Its job in the formula

$g_S$ is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

Where the article explains it

where $g_S$ is the growth rate of human research labor, exactly as before, and $g_C$ is a new term generated by the continuous automation of research tasks — one that can be strictly positive even when $g_S$ 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 ] .

Learn the underlying idea

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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