The Productivity J-Curve [pdf] (2018)

(ide.mit.edu)

18 points | by kioku 3 days ago

5 comments

  • curio_Pol_curio 1 day ago
    If you are one of those that are amused by attempts to synthesize paradigms, here's one that superposes J-curve on the hype curve

    https://www.financialprofessionals.org/training-resources/re...

    Q: The J-dip is where capital stock is just about to overtake investment growth, why should it lag the hype trough where presumably value overtakes interest ?

  • ok123456 41 minutes ago
    This completely breaks down under the current reality of AI investment, as players large and small are no longer price-takers. The marginal costs of investment are not constant because we have finite supplies of GPUs, TPUs, memory, hard drives, and power. The Hamiltonian in equations 5 and 6 needs to account for this.
    • metalliqaz 34 minutes ago
      are you saying that previous technologies had effectively infinite supply?
      • jmalicki 12 minutes ago
        It's not that supply was actually infinite, but you didn't realistically have situations where you said "I want to buy GPUs for a data center" only to be told "there's a 3 year waiting list."

        You might have two months after NVidia 3090s came out where they were short, but it is nothing like today.

      • ok123456 17 minutes ago
        No. I'm stating where the paper's assumptions are clearly violated.

        AI companies are intentionally trying to monopolize the supply of inputs needed for R&D. This violates homogeneity of degree 1.

  • maxothex 1 minute ago
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