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Lot of impressive points. They are also irrelevant. The majority of people also only extrapolate from the knowledge they acquired in the past. That’s why there is the concept of inventor, someone who comes up with new ideas. Many new inventions are also based on existing ideas. Is that the reason to dismiss those achievements?

Do you only take LLM seriously if it can be another Einstein?

> But a world where we used LLMs for the majority of work, would be a world with no fundamental breakthroughs.

What do you consider recent fundamental breakthroughs?

Even if you are right, human can continue to work on hard problems while letting LLM handle the majority of derivative work