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:CREATED: [2026-05-24 Sun]
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:ID: 0b5a8a74-cfd6-542d-bc88-4eb3cd8626f9
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#+title: Cost Structure — Zero Marginal Cost
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#+filetags: :passepartout:economics:cost:marginal:zero:
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- **One-time cost:** [[id:45ea493b-94ad-5885-aa65-0c846e5c3c1d][gate-rule encoding]] for a domain (from hours for codified domains up to months for tacit domains)
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- **Near-zero marginal cost:** ACL2 proof + Screamer consistency check + VivaceGraph lookup per interaction — all CPU-native, all in-image
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- **No recurring LLM API costs** for the 80% symbolic reasoning layer
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- **After [[id:efc76898-03f7-57ba-923d-35d65da88bb7][sufficiency flip]]:** pennies per day vs dollars per day for LLM-only
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The cost curve inverts: generation is expensive, verification is cheap. This is the inversion [[id:28c46769-c14b-42aa-ac7a-69d310157f8f][Passepartout]] exploits. This is the core insight of [[id:9af13fff-9725-542b-93b1-a555bc74ad72][Lisp economics]] — symbolic verification costs approach zero while LLM token costs remain constant.
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Token demand shifts from "every interaction burns tokens" to "only unfamiliar interactions burn tokens." Steady-state per-user LLM consumption drops by an order of magnitude.
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