Pitfalls of Probability

Here’s part 3 of a series of essays on “Interpolatable Archives”, a term I’ve been throwing around for quite some time when talking about Language Models and Artificial Intelligence. I finally got around to write down what I mean by that and it got a bit out of hand, so I had to split up this essay into four parts for convenience. The remaining part will be published tomorrow.Here’s an overview of what’s to come:Part 1: The Skeleton Library - Compulsions to Connect, Warburg, Borges and Goldsmith, Cultural Technologies and Digital OralitiesPart 2: Explosion Drawings - Science Sans Discoveries, Textrotating Cognitive Catalysts and Exploding Your Intelligence by the Method of WarburgPart 3: Pitfalls of Probability - Accelerations, Anachronisms, Wishfulfillments, Severances and HomogenizationsPart 4: Critical Vibes - Useless Bullshit, Sloptimizations, Vacuum Critiques and LeftoversSubscribe now“What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking.…