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Humans Are the Improbability Drive AI Can’t Copy

Humans Are the Improbability Drive AI Can’t Copy

Update: 2025-09-19
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AI runs on probability, humans thrive on impossibility. Douglas Adams’ improbability drive proves why the spark of surprise is ours alone.

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AI is a prediction machine, great at probability but bad at surprise. Humans are chaos-powered improbability drives—breaking patterns, inventing the impossible. Douglas Adams basically warned us in Hitchhiker’s Guide: the real magic comes from unpredictability.

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