On Interpolatable Archives (Clean)

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.This is the clean version in which I got rid of the “Slop” and some of the more silly parts of the essay.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…