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This is great! But what if the US invests 1% of GDP in GPU datacenters and then those are not needed becaues someone created a much more efficient architecture?

>>xer+(OP)
They will still use capacity. Why would you believe anything different?

>>xer+(OP)
More efficiency just means more consumption. Think when they add lanes to a highway, traffic gets better for a little bit but very soon the highway is just as congested as before.

>>xer+(OP)
Look up Jevons Paradox, when something becomes more efficient, consumption can goes up, often due to price elasticity.

Think of like this: Imagine car prices go from $200,000 to $$20,000 - you wouldn't sell 10x the amount of cars, you'd sell --- In fact I just looked up the numbers - worldwide only 100K or so cars are 200K & higher, whereas roughly 80 million cars are in that affordable category.

So a price drop of 90% allowed sales to go from 0.1M to 80M!! I think this means we need more engines, tires, roads, gas, spare parts.

>>wild_e+A
More people get where they’re going in the same amount of time though

>>xer+(OP)
Then they'll be able to use those datacenters much more efficiently.