GDP expands massively as intelligence becomes infrastructure; Jevons paradox will apply to AI.

GDP expands massively as intelligence becomes infrastructure; Jevons paradox will apply to AI. | AI drives marginal cost towards zero which expands consumption rather than shrinks it. So we'll have Javon's paradox where we'll do so much more. ... Historically, every major productivity leap created more demand than it destroyed. Electricity, the internet, productivity, mobility, AI is just the steepest version of all of this. So, the holiday isn't funded by wages, it's funded by abundance. So, when intelligence becomes uh infrastructure, GDP expands massively.

AI drives marginal cost towards zero which expands consumption rather than shrinks it. So we'll have Javon's paradox where we'll do so much more. ... Historically, every major productivity leap created more demand than it destroyed. Electricity, the internet, productivity, mobility, AI is just the steepest version of all of this. So, the holiday isn't funded by wages, it's funded by abundance. So, when intelligence becomes uh infrastructure, GDP expands massively.

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  "context": "we're configuring confusing a labor economy with a productivity economy, right? uh AI drives marginal cost towards zero which expands consumption rather than shrinks it. So we'll have Javon's paradox where we'll do so much more. We'll see already AI taking over boring white collar u um redundancy and white collar boringness as as Eric Bernie Olson talks about it and then we'll see humans moving towards the much more uh value added roles and that'll happen kind of across every sector. Historically, every major productivity leap created more demand than it destroyed.",
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      "label": "AI inference cost falls >=900x per million tokens since 2023",
      "notes": "HIT — 900x annual decline confirmed. Marginal cost approaching zero — Jevons trigger condition.",
      "source": "Brownstone Research: Cost of Intelligence; arXiv: Economics of Digital Intelligence Capital",
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      "label": "Top economist publicly cites Jevons Paradox to explain AI labor expansion",
      "notes": "HIT — Apollo's Torsten Slok explicitly framed AI through Jevons Paradox in Fortune Apr 2026. Direct mainstream confirmation of Ismail's thesis.",
      "source": "Fortune: A 160-year-old paradox explains why AI will create more lawyers and accountants — Torsten Slok",
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      "expected_date": "2026-04-28",
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      "notes": "HIT — Citadel reported $650B AI capex; Big Tech alone hit $725B. Massive infrastructure layer for 'intelligence as infrastructure.'",
      "source": "Citadel 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis; Tom's Hardware $725B big tech capex",
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      "source_url": "https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/big-techs-ai-spending-plans-reach-725-billion",
      "expected_date": "2026-04-30",
      "observed_date": "2026-04-29",
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