We asked @nealstephenson if he uses AI in his writing. He gave us lore about his book Quicksilver: "I'm not real big on atrophying my skills." "There's something about the serendipity and the randomness of doing it yourself that is very productive in the end." "When I was writing my Baroque Cycle series of historical novels, I would just make notes by hand in comp books." "It was all hodgepodge. It wasn't organized or searchable. And so I would have to flip through them trying to find…