Jevon's Paradox
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Lenny's Podcast
TBPN
3 statements about Jevon's Paradox, every show
Hassabis doubts inference will ever be free due to Jevons' paradox
“Yeah, I'm not sure inference will ever be essentially free. I mean, there's sort of Jevon's paradox and other things about like, I think we'll just end up using All of us will end up using whatever we can get our hands on, and you could imagine millions of age…”
Wu: 10x engineering speed will yield over 10x more code
“I think in a kind of zero sum view, you might say, well, we're gonna be 10 times faster at software engineering, and so it means that we're gonna need 10 times fewer software engineers, right? But I think in practice, what really is gonna happen is actually, w…”