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The line you quoted caught my eye too and confused why it was in there without an explicit or implicit mention of "in ten years we'll be so productive we'll have 3-day work weeks".

I think you make a great point about LLM's being able to absorb new possibilities. I like to cite the invention of the MRI machine as an incredible innovation that took three independent discoveries over forty years to realize, not to mention commercialize. Maybe if (big if) when AGI comes it will be able to spit out dozens of inventions that are some culmination of similarly independent discoveries but I'm not going to hold my breath. We have to remember they are just extremely good regurgitation machines which, in my experience, why I've found they're nearly useless in niche programming tasks.