# kaal:claim:7261481-005

**Claim.** When ideation is performed by systems whose marginal cost per candidate idea approaches the cost of computation, the discovery of ideas ceases to be the scarce input, and the binding constraint migrates from generation to evaluation and alignment: which of the abundantly generated candidates is correct, useful, and safe to build on.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- ideation systems whose marginal candidate cost approaches computation cost

**Source quote.**

> When ideation is performed by systems whose marginal cost per candidate idea approaches the cost of computation, the discovery of ideas ceases to be the scarce input, and the binding constraint migrates from generation to evaluation and alignment: which of the abundantly generated candidates is correct, useful, and safe to build on.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Computative Economics: A Framework for Economic Analysis under Computational Abundance* (2026), II.B. Growth Theory: The Residual and the Scarce Discovery of Ideas, page 8

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Computative Economics: A Framework for Economic Analysis under Computational Abundance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7261481

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**Topics.** economics, ai-and-agents

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