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Ken Liu: What Science Fiction Can Teach Us

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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The Hidden Girl and the Paper Menagerie

i feel doubtful that a future like that exists for writing i mean it's hard to say anything about the future when you project out long enough but you just look at some of the incredible creativity you see in works of fiction. Your story real artists from from the hidden girl kind of paints this picture of what being an artist might look like in a world where the computational system does all the work and i think it's a really interesting portrayal of this. Maybe we can maybe talk about both some of the broad ideas there what it's like to write short fiction for you and then a few particular stories.

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