Jevons Paradox
Why efficiency can increase total consumption — the argument of 2025.
Stai visualizzando una scheda concettuale: cosa significa questo termine in linguaggio chiaro, e i record che mette in relazione.
Jevons (1865) observed that more efficient steam engines increased total coal use: cheaper output finds more uses. Satya Nadella invoked it the week DeepSeek-R1 crashed NVIDIA's stock — cheaper intelligence, he argued, means vastly more intelligence consumed. The 2025 record (token prices down, token volumes and capex up) has so far behaved exactly as the paradox predicts; whether it holds at every scale is unproven.
Come si collega al resto dello stack
I collegamenti di questa scheda a colpo d'occhio — clicca un gruppo per raggiungerlo.
Fonti
Nadella on Jevons (Jan 2025) ↗
Record revisionato al 2026-01-15 — vedi Metodologia.