At that point, companies might rediscover the ROI of good old meat based AI.

That’s like saying when the price of gasoline gets too high, people will stop driving.

Once a lifestyle is based on driving (like commuting from the suburbs to a job in the city), it’s quite difficult and in some cases, impossible without disrupting everything else.

A gallon of gas is about 892% higher in 2025 than it was in 1970 (not adjusted for inflation) and yet most people in the US still drive.

The benefits of LLMs are too numerous to put that genie back in the bottle.

We’re at the original Mac (128K of RAM, 9-inch B&W screen, no hard drive) stage of LLMs as a mainstream product.

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belter 4 days ago | parent [-]

> when the price of gasoline gets too high

People get electric cars or public transport....

	▲	Nemo_bis 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Indeed > Adjusting for long-term ridership trends on each system, seasonal effects, and inertia (the tendency for ridership totals to persist from one month to the next), CBO estimates that the same increase of 20 per- cent in gasoline prices that affects freeway traffic volume is associated with an increase of 1.9 percent in average system ridership. That result is moderately statistically significant: It can be asserted with 95 percent confidence that higher gasoline prices are associated with increased ridership. https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/110th-congress-2007-...