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gA=gC+gS1−ϕg_A = \frac{g_C + g_S}{1-\phi}

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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…

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phi occurs below the fraction bar. The quantity above the bar is divided by this expression; zero is excluded as a denominator.

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gA=gC+gS1−ϕg_A = \frac{g_C + g_S}{1-\phi}

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This equation states an equality: the expressions on both sides have the same value under the article’s assumptions.

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…

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  • gSg_S: the growth rate of human research labor, exactly as before.
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