Frontier models are closer to everyday human thinking than many people admit
littmath · x · 2026-07-22
The post agrees with a claim that much of human thinking is just recombining previously seen ideas, and argues frontier models are not fundamentally different from how people think most of the time.
It pushes back on the idea that AI progress exposes some uniquely deep human originality: most “original” thoughts are already mixtures of older ones, often centuries old. The implication is that this is normal rather than threatening, and that many people may be over-invested in believing human intelligence is categorically special.
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