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 ===== Digression: Nietzsche, Blake and the Camden Cat =====
 {{Quote|''The Birth of Tragedy'' sold 625 copies in six years; the three parts of ''Thus Spoke Zarathustra'' sold fewer than a hundred copies each. Not until it was too late did his works finally reach a few decisive ears, including Edvard Munch, August Strindberg, and the Danish-Jewish critic Georg Brandes, whose lectures at the University of Copenhagen first introduced Nietzsche’s philosophy to a wider audience.
-:—''The Sufferings of Nietzsche'', Los Angeles Review of Books, 2018}}
+:—''The Sufferings of Nietzsche'', Los Angeles Review of Books, 2018
-Here [[Sam Bankman-Fried]], with his loopy remarks about William Shakespeare’s damning [[Bayesian prior|Bayesian priors]], has a point, though not the one he thought he had. [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] died in obscurity and was only redeemed, after a nasty mix-up with National Socialism, in the 1960s, some seventy years after his death. William Blake, too, died in obscurity, as did Emily Dickinson.
+When Shakespeare wrote, almost all of Europeans were busy farming, and very few people attended university; few people were even literate — probably as low as about ten million people. By contrast, there are now upwards of a billion literate people in the Western sphere. What are the odds that the greatest writer would have been born in 1564?
+:—[[Sam Bankman-Fried|Sam Bankman Fried]]’s “sophomore college blog”}}
+Here [[Sam Bankman-Fried]], with his loopy remarks about William Shakespeare’s “pretty damning [[Bayesian prior|Bayesian priors]]”, had a point, though not the one he thought. [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] died in obscurity, as did William Blake and Emily Dickinson.
-These are the artists for whom the improbability engine worked its magic, even if not in their lifetimes. But how many undiscovered Nietzsches, Blakes and Dickinsons are there, who never caught the light, and now lie lost, sedimented into unreachably deep strata of the human canon? How many ''living'' artists are brilliantly ploughing an under-appreciated furrow, cursing their own immaculate Bayesian priors? How many solitary geniuses are out there who, as we speak, are galloping towards an obscurity a [[large language model]] might save them from?
+For these geniuses, the improbability engine worked its magic, even if not in their lifetimes. But how many undiscovered Nietzsches, Blakes and Dickinsons are there, who never caught the light, and now lie sedimented into unreachably deep strata of the human canon? How many ''living'' artists are currently ploughing an under-appreciated furrow, cursing their own immaculate “[[Bayesian priors]]”? How many solitary geniuses are out there, right now, stampeding towards an obscurity a [[large language model]] might save them from?
-(I know of at least one: legendary rockabilly singer [[Daniel Jeanrenaud]], known to his fans as the [[Camden Cat]], who for thirty years has plied his trade with a beat-up acoustic guitar on the Northern Line, and once wrote and recorded one of the great rockabilly singles of all time. Here it is, on {{Plainlink|1=https://soundcloud.com/thecamdencats/you-carry-on?si=24ececd75c0540faafd470d822971ab7|2=SoundCloud}}.)
+(I know of at least one: legendary rockabilly singer [[Daniel Jeanrenaud]], the [[Camden Cat]], who for thirty years has plied his trade with a beat-up acoustic guitar on the Northern Line, and once wrote and recorded one of the great rockabilly singles of all time. Here it is, on {{Plainlink|1=https://soundcloud.com/thecamdencats/you-carry-on?si=24ececd75c0540faafd470d822971ab7|2=SoundCloud}}.)
 Digression over.