'99% of people cannot extrapolate': AI revolution's lesson on imagining progress
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-11-10
Nick Dobos argues the biggest lesson of the AI revolution is that "99% of people cannot extrapolate. At all." Most people, he says, literally cannot imagine or visualize progress beyond the current state, leaving them unable to predict the future — a recurring fault line in debates over how fast AI capabilities will advance.
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