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"The Curve Tells You Where It's Going"

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Extrapolating a capability curve is a bet that the future resembles the past — exactly as good as that bet, in both directions, and no substitute for naming a mechanism.

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The optimist draws the recent slope through disputed walls; the pessimist draws the plateau through a history of decade-scale surprises.

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Both are the likeliest-world error performed on a chart.

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