The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton — The Defendant

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AI is making previously inaccessible creative skills available to more people. Claire could not illustrate. John wanted to create motion he could only describe with his hands. Peng wanted to produce 3D renders. In the past, each of those gaps would have required a specialist or years of practice. Now they can begin with a prompt.

Lenny Rachitsky

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The question is not what you look at, but what you see. It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path, to be overcome by its strangeness and wonder.

Henry David Thoreau — Journal

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