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marginal cost appears in 25 chunks across 21 episodes, from 2023-10-23 to 2026-03-30.
Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 8/4/25 (2025-08-04), with 3 observations on this topic.
Semantically it travels with fixed cost, business model, and llms, while by chunk count it sits between extremely expensive and Twitter; its yearly rank moved from #56 in 2023 to #47 in 2026.
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Range2023-10-23 to 2026-03-30Mean1.2 per episodePeak3 on 2025-08-04
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...ntuitively users feel that marginal price is fair if it scales roughly with the marginal cost to produce the marginal item.
Fixed cost one-size-fits-all-software has a marginal cost of effectively zero.
That makes that kind of software hard to...
...s a given integration at fixed cost, they can re-sell it to many users with low marginal cost.
But an ecosystem dynamic makes the product more valuable at a compounding rate with the size of activity in the system.
An ecosystem dynamic require...
...e to assume that consumer experiences will be free.
But LLMs have a non-trivial marginal cost.
Orders of magnitude below human labor.
But orders of magnitude above generic compute.
By default, this will lead to faster aggregation, as only aggr...
...of computers (or at the very least, a new one can be spun up at any time at low marginal cost, no matter when it is). And they can also handle fuzzy, reasonable behaviors like a human could.
This might allow an era full of new flourishing of p...
...entation (angle towards or away from the north star)
A one-time cost to build
A marginal cost to operate
A marginal value to users when they use it
An uncertainty term that obscures all of the other terms
One approach is to pick the node that ...