According to this article: whenever someone games a benchmark to make an upward chart on some y-axis, it's YOUR responsibility to prove how and why that trend can't continue indefinitely.

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Seems to me that the default is "I don't know what's going to happen" and if you're making a confident prediction, bring evidence.

Scott makes a Lindy effect argument which is plausible, but don't let that fool you, we still don't know what's going to happen.

I'm pretty sure that gaming benchmarks can continue indefinitely.