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chongliyesterday at 10:06 PM1 replyview on HN

No, that's not all we're doing. If that's all humans ever did, we'd still be living in the stone age.


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sally_glanceyesterday at 10:28 PM

Can we be sure? Maybe it's just very rare for experience, education and memories to line up in exactly the way that allows synthesizing something innovative. So it requires a few billion candidates and maybe a couple of generations too.

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