[gchamonlive]

> we are given random connections and asked to do the mental work of inventing meaning in them

How is that different from having an insight yourself and later doing the work to see if it holds on closer inspection?

[delusional]

Don't ask me to elaborate on this, because it's kinda nebulous in my mind. I think there's a difference between being given an insight and interrogating that on your own initiative, and being given the same insight.

[gchamonlive]

I don't doubt there is a difference in the mechanism of arriving at a given connection. What I think it's not possible to distinguish is the connection that someone made intuitively after reading many sources and the one that the AI makes, because both will have to undergo scrutiny before being accepted as relevant. We can argue there could be a difference in quality, depth and search space, maybe, but I don't think there is an ontological difference.

[fwip]

The one that you thought of in the shower has a much greater chance of being right, and also of being relevant to you.

[gchamonlive]

Has it? Why?

[fwip]

Because humans aren't morons tasked with coming up with 100 connections.

[gchamonlive]

Doesn't explain why a connection made in the shower has in essence more merit than a connection an LLM was instructed to come up with.