> We're all just remixing ideas we've heard before. We're largely remixing ideas we've heard before, but not just I think. If you're just remixing ideas that c

> We're all just remixing ideas we've heard before. We're largely remixing ideas we've heard before, but not just I think. If you're just remixing ideas that came before... where did those ideas come from? I think you can get quite far remixing ideas but for more novel concepts to emerge you have to actually create new stuff. In biology it seems that evolution has found it worthwhile not to minimise mutations too much. In genetic programming you need both mutation and crossover for evolution. I don't think LLMs really have that mutation of ideas (at the moment!), and I suspect humans create genuinely new concepts in a much more sophisticated way than mere random mutation.