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Forecasts Are Extrapolations

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Forecasts about artificial intelligence are themselves predictions from past distributions — and every lesson about extrapolation applies to them in full.

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Seventy years of confident timelines, wrong in both directions: winters called permanent, springs called imminent.

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Scale curves rewarding extrapolation and walls of disputed yield are both real — neither settles the other.