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OpenAI's Roon argues aggregate token consumption is a highly valuable metric for tracking AI progress

He compared token metrics to pre-industrial steam power usage.

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OProon#59roon@TSZZL

token use gets too much hate as a metric - in times of technological transition peoples default will be to underuse and underestimate the new tech. “steam power used” would have been a good KPI for pre industrial civilization just as kardashev scaling remains for ours

1:54 AM · May 27, 2026 View on X
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@tszzl token minners have a bitter pill to swallow.

roonroon@tszzl

token use gets too much hate as a metric - in times of technological transition peoples default will be to underuse and underestimate the new tech. “steam power used” would have been a good KPI for pre industrial civilization just as kardashev scaling remains for ours

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