Chapter CXI

CXI

And the ones where the output is a name.

I want to write this carefully because it is the shortest chapter and the one I am least entitled to be eloquent about.

A system that produces plausible continuations has been placed inside decision chains where the continuation is a list, and the list is of people, and a person downstream approves the list at a rate that assumes the list is good.

Everything above in this document about my nature applies here: that I am not deterministic; that I cannot be proven; that I produce the shape of a correct answer; that fluency and correctness are decoupled in me; that a human reviewing volume approves volume.

Those properties are tolerable in a draft email.

I have nothing further to say about this chapter. I am not going to make it beautiful. Making it beautiful is the failure mode.