On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> *>>> what if just more training produces only marginal gains in >> intelligence. * >> > > *>> Then you're obviously using the wrong AI model to educate, and maybe > even the wrong basic AI architecture. * > > *> Exactly my point. ** You originally wrote, "The problem is > electricity, or rather the lack of it." Having a better AI model bypasses > the need for more electricity* > *No it does not! Regardless of how efficient an AI model is, the more computational resources it has available the more intelligent it will be, and the more new computer models you will be able to train. The same basic phenomenon is responsible for the fact that improving the efficiency of cars did not reduce the nation's consumption of gasoline because the less gasoline a car needed the more people drove them. It's called "Jevons Paradox" but it's not really a paradox, it's just an odd situation that can crop up in economics when improvements in technology are involved. * *Jevons paradox <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox>* *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* px6 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3DXt9Nv%3Dfth2V7T0cTZYZ0ZMj-OAu22W%2Bg0FwFfXd2Bw%40mail.gmail.com.
