Exponential improvement in compute efficiency combined with recursive self improvement of AI systems drives the marginal cost of additional intelligence and digital goods toward zero.
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Exponential improvement in compute efficiency, combined with recursive self-improvement of AI systems, drives the marginal cost of additional intelligence and digital goods toward zero
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Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025), Neoclassical Economics and the Scarcity Postulate, p. 11 https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442 · source PDF
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Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442
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applies to intelligence, algorithms, software, predictive models and coordination services
does not apply to materially scarce inputs such as energy and rare earth metals
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mechanismsupport: arguedeconomics
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