What Ted Chiang thinks about writing
American science-fiction writer, author of the collections Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation, and an essayist on artificial intelligence for The New Yorker.
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1 dated position, 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Ted Chiang has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsLet me offer another generalization: any writing that deserves your attention as a reader is the result of effort expended by the person who wrote it.
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