by Ted Chiang in The New Yorker, February 9, 2023
Ted Chiang
“Sometimes it’s only in the process of writing that you discover your original ideas.”
Ted Chiang
“Your first draft isn’t an unoriginal idea expressed clearly; it’s an original idea expressed poorly, and it is accompanied by your amorphous dissatisfaction, your awareness of the distance between what it says and what you want it to say. That’s what directs you during rewriting, and that’s one of the things lacking when you start with text generated by an A.I.”