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by ecommerceguy 27 days ago
As models gain efficiency, will the need for ram cool?
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They’ll just fill up the ram with bigger models. Demand will INCREASE, not decrease.
Every time we add capacity with almost anything, we find ways to saturate it.
Braess's paradox for roads. When we add capacity to road networks, traffic increases even more than the capacity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox

Jevons paradox is at play. Right now frontier AI is very expensive which heavily suppresses demand.

If you made it 10x cheaper right now you would see a truly unimaginable wave of bot slop.