Everyone is a Jevons paradox expert now: the AI world's favorite efficiency meme
aniketmaurya · x · 2026-09-17
The author quips that "everyone is a Jev expert now." This pokes fun at how the AI industry reflexively invokes the Jevons paradox — the idea that efficiency gains increase total resource consumption — whenever compute costs drop or AI's compute demand is questioned, turning it into a cookie-cutter argument that everyone in the field now wields like an expert.
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