Despite the superwriters...
Will was surprised to learn that I think machine writing could soon surpass the best human writers. As the head of Essay Architecture, he thought my position would just be “no matter what, humans will always be better at writing essays than machines.” I actually have some pretty extreme predictions on the trajectory of technology (I guess you could say I'm an ambivalent accelerationist), but I guess I believe that AI progress is irrelevant to the fact that I will always enjoy writing and see writing through the chaos as an opportunity. So yes, I think machines will make essays that are history-defining, that are good to degrees that are unimaginable to us today.
This will, unfortunately, make it even harder for writers to have economic value; but realistically, it's already too hard. The Creator Economy is a game of power laws, and AI might shift the chance of success from 2% to 1%. But could the same technology help artists go from 1x potential to 20x potential? If AI kills the market for commoditized creative work, will it let humans focus on the right things?