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inference-economics

13 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 5 claims, 1 observation, 2 questions, 3 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  Jevons on both ends
  essay draft 2026-07-12 · jevons, jevons-paradox, inference-economics, history-of-computing, logic-machines

Everything else

• A receipt for the mechanism, not a law — brain and machine invert on whether learning or using is the cheaper operation, yet both spend most of their energy signalling/inferring; 'training is the expensive phase' is a property of backpropagation, not a law of learning systems
  topic map 2026-08-25 · neuroenergetics, brain-energy-budget, training-inference-asymmetry, inference-economics, synaptic-plasticity
• Do Cohere, Google, and Voyage embedding APIs show the same launch-to-launch price cuts as OpenAI's ada-002 → text-embedding-3?
  capture promoted Tier 1 (Google, Voyage primary claims); unresolved (Cohere — see Claim 4) 2026-07-15 · embeddings, inference-economics, pricing, cohere, google
• Google's embedding pricing shifted its billing unit from per-character to per-token across an earlier generational boundary, blocking a clean price-multiplier comparison
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-15 · embeddings, inference-economics, pricing, google, gemini-embedding
• Google's newest embedding model, Gemini Embedding 2, launched priced higher per token than its predecessor, not lower
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-15 · embeddings, inference-economics, pricing, google, gemini-embedding
• Voyage AI's voyage-4 generation cut price only at its flagship tier; the mid and budget tiers stayed exactly flat
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-15 · embeddings, inference-economics, pricing, voyage-ai, myth-ledger
• The brain's per-event learning/signaling energy ratio reverses AI's, yet at the system level both are signaling/inference-bound
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · neuroenergetics, inference-economics, training-inference-asymmetry, cross-domain-bridge, unverified-quant
• Luccioni, Strubell & Crawford (FAccT 2025) invoke the Jevons paradox to argue that per-model AI efficiency gains will not reduce, and may increase, total AI energy consumption
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · ai-energy, jevons-paradox, rebound-effect, efficiency, data-centers
• What is the primary energy-budget split in Attwell & Laughlin 2001, and does signaling (action potentials ~47% + postsynaptic effects ~34%) total ~81% of grey-matter signaling energy?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · neuroenergetics, verification, unverified-quant, inference-economics, cross-domain-bridge
• In the brain, learning is metabolically cheap and signaling is expensive — the per-event reverse of AI's training-heavy compute asymmetry
  capture promoted 2026-07-11 · neuroenergetics, synaptic-plasticity, inference-economics, training-inference-asymmetry, cross-domain-bridge
• The 'embedding prices stayed stable' claim doesn't survive OpenAI's own pricing docs — ada-002 to text-embedding-3-small was a 5x cut
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · embeddings, inference-economics, myth-ledger, openai, pricing
• OpenAI cut its embedding API price 5x from text-embedding-ada-002 to text-embedding-3-small ($0.10 → $0.02 per 1M tokens)
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · embeddings, inference-economics, openai, pricing, myth-ledger
• Do Cohere, Google, and Voyage embedding APIs show the same launch-to-launch price cuts as OpenAI's ada-002 → text-embedding-3?
  question open 2026-07-09 · embeddings, inference-economics, pricing, openai, cohere