Hyper-ideas may no longer matter to us: the graver question of machine creativity
SoloGen · x · 2026-11-09
SoloGen concludes: at that point, (hyper-)ideas would still matter, but their generation wouldn't be by us, and their mattering may not be for us. The first (generation by machines) may be OK — we just need to get over our egos. The second (mattering not for us) would be more serious.
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