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Why do you believe human brains are magic? We may need some breakthroughs, but trillions of investment tends to produce those.

And it's becoming less clear over time that a breakthrough will be needed.

> Why do you believe human brains are magic?

We chose the problems to value. Literally every step of a proof is equally proved as the starting point. The choice of the starting point is what makes the problem, and it's a normative choice, which is to say it is a social choice.

Why do you believe that LLMs are good at the same things humans are?
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It's not magical abilities - humans have proved for millenia that they can find novel solutions to problems - we have no idea how that comes to be though (which could be called magic I guess)

At issue with AI is that it's searching an existing corpus for fragments of solutions generated by humans - that's not necessarily novel, and we've not yet worked out how to make the machines actually invent.