lateinteraction: longer thinking before hard decisions could invert the AI Jevons paradox
lateinteraction · x · 2026-09-20
lateinteraction, a well-known researcher in retrieval, offers a counterintuitive take: the Jevons paradox applied to AI compute could be offset by models' ability to "think longer before harder decisions" — spending efficiency gains on longer inference. He also muses that composite types like dicts and lists (not just bools) would make this far more interesting.
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