AI

Every book that will ever be written already exists in a finite AI-library. So does every biography of every person who has lived or ever will live. The mathematics that proves it starts with how large language models codify what can be said — and ends where Borges, Wittgenstein, and the theology of omniscience converge on a single number.

Talking to machines started with binary code. Later, coded computer languages like Basic and Pascal were interpreted by the computer so that the machine could understand. Python and Java got closer to human language but were still code. Today, we speak and the machine writes the code itself. Sixty years of programming history show that this is not the disruption it appears to be — but its consequences reach...