Olympic athletes aren't 'creative': why goal-driven generation misses what creativity means
menhguin · x · 2026-10-05
Extending his debate on Schmidhuber's creativity theory, the author notes Schmidhuber includes creation only as a means toward understanding, not a terminal goal — and generation-as-means can't match the layman notion of creativity. He cites athletes trained for decades to win Olympics, corporate art studios, and engineered child prodigies: mechanically improving yet not intuitively 'creative', unlike self-directed amateurs, because the creative impulse itself matters more than goal-driven output.
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