Jevons Paradox is the latest jargon you need to know to signal you’re smart on AI
The world of technology moves fast. For commentators and analysts who want to signal they know what’s going on, that means adapting just as quickly.
After mastering epidemiology and evangelizing for crypto during the pandemic, many Twitter (now X) “experts” turned their hand to military strategy and geopolitics in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But for the last 18 months, AI has been the topic du jour. In the wake of DeepSeek turning the entire industry on its head — and wiping nearly $600 billion off of the market cap of Nvidia in a single day — one new phrase has become table stakes for anyone wading into the DeepSeek discourse: Jevons Paradox, with traffic to its associated Wikipedia page soaring this week.
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