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Sorry, to be clear I was making the stronger claim:

I would consider it very foolish to use pure induction to bet on _exponential_ growth stopping within 1 year.

I think you can easily find plenty of other long-lasting exponential curves. A good starting point would be:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_studies

With perhaps the optimistic case as

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_change

This is where I’d really like to be able to point to our respective Manifold predictions on the subject; we could circle back in a year’s time and review who was in fact correct. I wager internet points it will be me :)

Concretely, https://manifold.markets/JoshYou/best-ai-time-horizon-by-aug...



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