Kevin Kelly

But the consensus is that's a variable skill.

And that kind of overwhelms our ability to imagine crazy, weird stuff because we're not usually rewarded for that.

It's mostly about removing stuff these days.

I would say that's the first step.

You remove it and then you want to fill it up in a different direction.

And by the way, the little sidestep, I think this is one of the ways that AI will help us.

And that is because AI is capable of these orthogonal, weird directions that is very difficult for humans to let go of.

They're much easier.

So working with them to help us inhabit the possibility space in a different way, then we find it...

hard on her own because of our education and biases and inabilities.

So that's what I see as one of the roles of some of the AIs is assisting us in our imagination.

I know some writers, some fiction writers, who naturally can just go off and imagine crazy things.

And that's partly their ability to fill in details.

And then I have other people that I know who are what I would call lateral thinkers.

And they have an imagination very much in this direction of

overcoming the orthodoxy, overcoming the conventional wisdom.

And they'll take something ordinary and just come at it a slightly skewed direction, like laterally, on a very regular basis.

And it's like, oh, we've never thought of that.

They are, I believe, have trained themselves to do that.

Like Marvin Minsky, who was a very imaginative guy who used to pretend that he was a Martian