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Demand for Intelligence Expands Recursively as Price Falls

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In all of human history, has there ever been a commodity with infinite demand, as there appear to be for intelligence? I can't think of one In economics, rather than modeling the usual price/demand curve to reach an equalibrium demand, perhaps you'd model price/*rate of demand growth* ChatGPT prefers "recursive expansion of demand" as increasing intelligence opens new applications/markets

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In all of human history, has there ever been a commodity with infinite demand, as there appears to be for intelligence? I can't think of one. Even compute, energy or just silicon/sand are just downstream of intelligence, which is the main demand driver.

In economics, rather than modeling the usual price/demand curve to reach an equilibrium, perhaps you'd have to model price/*rate of demand growth* (ie, the derivative of demand, or some other indicator of velocity)

Interestingly, ChatGPT (below) prefers the framework of "recursive expansion of demand" as increasing intelligence opens new applications/markets.

But the end result is the same -- the demand curve keeps moving to the right, maybe forever.

Which I think is unprecedented.

5:25 PM · May 24, 2026 · 16.1K Views