Jevons Paradox

Uber CEO: I Have To Be Honest, AI Will Replace 9.4 Million Jobs At Uber!

The Diary Of A CEO

A phenomenon where increased efficiency in resource use leads to an overall increase in resource consumption rather than a decrease, applied to how Uber expanded the market beyond traditional black car services.

DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks

All-In Podcast

An economic concept where increased efficiency in resource use leads to increased overall consumption of that resource; applied to AI, meaning cheaper AI leads to more AI usage.

Josh Wolfe: Lux Capital Partners

The Knowledge Project Podcast

What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About AI And Jobs

Y Combinator

An economic principle stating that technological improvements increasing the efficiency of using a resource can lead to increased consumption of that resource due to revealed latent demand.

How AI Coding Agents Will Change Your Job

Y Combinator

Mentioned as a counterargument where falling costs of a resource (like software development via AI) could lead to increased overall demand, though the discussion posits AI, not humans, would meet this demand.

Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN

All-In Podcast

Economic concept explaining that increased efficiency in resource use leads to increased overall resource consumption, applied to AI compute driving more demand.

Stock Expert: Becoming Rich Is Simple, But You Won’t Do It!

The Diary Of A CEO

The economic principle that as technological efficiency increases the rate at which a resource is used, the demand for that resource can increase rather than decrease. Used as an analogy for AI's potential impact on job creation

Former Intel CEO on What Went Wrong, What's Next + Lovable CEO on the Real Promise of Vibe Coding

All-In Podcast

An economic theory stating that increased efficiency in resource use tends to increase, rather than decrease, overall consumption of that resource.

What happens if the AI market crashes? | Alvin Wang Graylin | TEDxBerlin

TEDx Talks

Discussed in relation to AI inference costs; the idea that cheaper technology leads to increased usage, but with a limit, drawing parallels to energy consumption peaking despite falling costs.

Everything Is the AI Bet: You Won’t Believe How Much Vanishes If It All Breaks

Tom Bilyeu

A principle where increased efficiency or lower cost of a resource leads to its increased consumption, mentioned in the context of technological adoption and job creation.

DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501

Lex Fridman

A concept stating that as the price of something goes down, demand for it increases, applied to AI lowering the cost of programs and potentially increasing demand for programmers.