Meredith Whittaker on Nostr: nprofile1q…5nkff nprofile1q…5c5h6 efficiency doesn't (generally) lead to a ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqu2hl9r48emg8eq82nh8zwadl3xr93u7vkk37qavfcg7cu3dmrrzq95nkff (nprofile…nkff) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq4m5nu28anh99cmxqymavktvahtzexknxstgtgedfqk9dv0r3sh3sx5c5h6 (nprofile…c5h6) efficiency doesn't (generally) lead to a reduction in scale. In fact, often the opposite. See: Jevons paradox. See: Alexnet and the transformers architecture (and many others) presented massive efficiency gains--gains that were then leveraged to build bigger than previously possible, not to reduce and/or maintain scale.

We talk about this in the paper.