Daily Productive Sharing 1211 - Jevons Paradox in AI Era

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Tina He introduces a paradox at the heart of AI-driven efficiency: the very tools designed to liberate us often end up trapping us in an ever-escalating cycle of work.

1. Efficiency doesn’t tame our desires—it amplifies them. Our innovations become launching pads for even greater ambition.
2. The time we save is reinvested—often with a kind of compounding effect.
3. When everyone can 10x their output, the baseline for society rises too. The result? We all have to run faster just to stay in place.
4. When everyone can theoretically work more hours, it becomes reality—everyone must.
5. The key question is no longer “How do we optimize the system?” but rather: For whom and for what are we optimizing?
6. When everyone is suddenly 10x more powerful, the real challenge isn’t how to do something—it’s deciding what’s worth doing.
7. As technical execution becomes effortless—when anyone can launch a startup, design a fashion line, or produce a film—the scarce resource becomes: knowing what’s truly worth doing.

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Tina He 介绍了关于 AI 效率的悖论：那些被设计用来解放我们的工具，反而把我们困在了不断升级的工作循环中。

1. 效率并不能驯服我们的欲望，反而激发它们。我们的创新，成了欲望的跳板。
2. 节省下来的时间，被重新投入，往往还带着“复利效应”。
3. 当每个人都能将产出提高十倍，整个社会的基准值也随之提高，结果就是——我们都必须更快奔跑，才能留在原地。
4. 当每个人理论上都能工作更多小时时，现实变成了——最终每个人都必须这么做。
5. 关键问题不再是“如何优化当前系统”，而是：我们究竟在为谁、为什么而优化？
6. 当每个人突然都变得强大 10 倍，难题就不再是“如何去做”，而是“做什么才值得”。
7. 当技术执行变得轻而易举，任何人都能创办初创公司、设计时装系列或制作一部电影，真正稀缺的资源，变成了：知道什么值得做。

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