On Mon, Feb 02, 2026 at 03:39:47PM -0800, Brent Meeker wrote: > Even if you, as a human are very creative, it doesn't count if you're creating > something that had already been created. I'm sure most people on this list > have had a clever idea only to discover that Euler or Bernoulli or somebody > though of it a 100yrs ago. So to be effectively creative you need an enormous > knowledge base, which LLM's excel at. > > Brent
And then there's the fact that usually when a creative leap happens (in whatever field), it happens more than once independently. Its often the case that the second person to discover or invent something gets the credit. Kauffman's idea of "adjacent possibility" plays into this. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders [email protected] http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/aYFFBpYtP1aml-0i%40zen.
