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“Even when we extrapolate the best-case scenario for chip production from our suppliers, it’s still not enough,” he said.

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Cash taxes can be transient, so it isn’t something the analyst would extrapolate.

You can’t just take an analysis of the past, no matter how careful it is, and assume you can extrapolate it into the future.

But extrapolating from executives' remarks during cuts is "possibly the worst way" to determine the effects of AI on jobs, said Martha Gimbel, executive director of the Budget Lab at Yale University.

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"This makes it problematic to extrapolate these past extinction patterns into the future, because the drivers are rapidly changing, particularly with respect to habitat loss and climate change."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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