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Figure 7.2: The attention budget as a fixed pool of lamplight on an ever-longer desk: the desk can grow without limit, but the circle of light cannot

A long row of tokens on the desk keeps growing to the right, while a fixed attention budget lights only a small pool of them; everything outside the pool is present yet barely seen.
Figure 7.2 The attention budget as a fixed pool of lamplight on an ever-longer desk: the desk can grow without limit, but the circle of light cannot. Everything outside it is present yet barely seen.