Why Compute? Jevons Still Explains the Shortage
Why COMPUTE? Jevons, 1865. Watt made the steam engine more efficient, coal got cheaper per unit of work, and Britain burned more coal than ever. That’s the part the efficiency crowd keeps getting backwards.
Every drop in cost per token makes a use case economic that wasn’t one a quarter ago. Cheaper compute doesn’t shrink demand for compute. It manufactures it. The world is structurally short compute. Efficiency is why, not why not.