This interview is part of The Rules We Live By, a series devoted to asking what it means to be a human living by an ever-evolving set of rules. The series is made up of conversations with those who dictate, think deeply about, and seek to bend or break the rules we live by.
“ONCE IN A WHILE,” Ted Chiang tells me, “an idea keeps coming back over a period of months or even years. […] I start asking, is there an interesting philosophical question that might be illuminated by this idea?” […]
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