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> whoever came up with this was able identify what can be traded off to make the previously impossible, possible, unlocking new scales and possibilities.

In fairness, that is an extremely standard trick so it's reasonably unlikely that the author came up with it themselves.



But the first time someone came up with that idea it was an act of creativity.


Yeah I agree. Though it is hard to tell if LLMs are capable of "easy" creativity like that though because anything that easy has already been done many times in its training set.

You've have to invent some new domain I guess and see if it could be creative within that domain. Difficult to think of a good test though.




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