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And even truly novel and unique things are more often than not composites of things that have come before prior. We all stand on the shoulders of giants/priors.


There's plenty of novelty out there. In fact it's in infinite supply.

The giant's shoulder just give us access to useful an lucrative spaces in which to build that novel stuff.


That doesn't contradict what I said. Just that pattern detection based on priors doesn't rule out novelty if guided by a human.




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