The Probabilistic Age

Q: Why are people so uncomfortable with Wikipedia? And Google? And, well, that whole blog thing? A: Because these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale. Q: Huh? A: Exactly. Our brains aren't wired to think in terms of statistics and probability. We want to know whether an encyclopedia entry i

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Why are people so uncomfortable with Wikipedia? And Google? And, well, that whole blog thing?