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This also relates to the idea in Dynaxiom 0001, where if things are too automatic, you're perhaps making too many of them, and not spending enough time with them. If you use AI to generate art or music, you can certainly generate many of them in a day, but at the end of a year, you'd have almost a thousand pieces of music or art, and what would you be doing with them? It would take you so much time just to curate the 1,000 things that you accumulated. But we've always lived in a time where things were automatic. Automatic cameras came out on the scene in the 1950s or the 1960s, and we were accumulating a lot of photographs even then, and it took a lot of time to go through the prints and find the good ones. I spent quite a bit of time going through my family photographs, scanning the ones that I thought were good photographs. But I still have boxes and boxes of prints which I never touch but they still have nostalgic power. In terms of my own photography, I usually generate about 20 to 30 what I think are good photographs in a year. Sometimes when I revisit them, I can reduce it to 10 or 20 or even less. If we take the time to prepare prints and frame them, then perhaps we might even produce even less. Perhaps even one photograph a year would be sufficient if you were taking photographs for decades.