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...ad back up context. You're constantly pushing for just a little bit better with diminishing returns. This is why I clip notes live and not after the fact. I know that if I don't take them right then, I won't ever take them at all.
.... Strikingly clear in this visual example. Logarithmic value, exponential cost. Diminishing returns. Did anyone in your tech circles talk about ChatGPT 5.1 last week?
...isting labor, but enabling technologies don't. Replacing technologies also have diminishing returns. You're taking a quantity towards zero. Replacing technologies are automation. Enabling technologies are innovation. Enabling technologies are what ...
...t the same as usefulness. In chatbots so far the two were aligned but we've hit diminishing returns because we can't tell the difference in intelligence anymore. Intelligence used to be the limiting factor, now it's not.[cu] There's a ceiling for i...
...eople think. It is concave, you don't need tons of data to automate it, there's diminishing returns.
...t. Investing your attention yields either compound returns (dream scrolling) or diminishing returns (doom scrolling). The former lets us "play ourselves into being" through learning and creation; the latter reduces us to passive consumption. Both s...
...he product, or a product that doesn't yet have PMF, or is getting significantly diminishing returns because you're hitting the quality asymptote, pull back resources.
...y. Each incremental unit of time invested to collapse a wave function gives you diminishing returns; an asymptote. Once collapsed, you reduce uncertainty, but also lock in details… if it turns out you collapsed it prematurely (e.g. you now realize ...