On Interpolatable Archives

I’ve been throwing around the term “Interpolatable Archives” for quite some time when talking about Language Models and Artificial Intelligence, and I finally got around to write down what I mean by that. It got a bit out of hand, and I had to split up this essay into four parts, all of which I collected into this post so I can link to it during discussions.If you like to read it in shorter chunks, here are the individual parts as they were published: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: The House of Polly - Useless Bullshit, Meaning Of The Poetic Kind, Sloptimizations, Thinking In Vacuums, Remainder Criticisms and Games of ChessI. The…