> it sounds like there were already precedents or existing pieces of knowledge, but humans had not thought to connect them
replyA lot of math research is like that. And, like the blog post suggests, problems one gives PhD students are 95% like that.
Maybe I am still fortunate to have become a programmer.
replyMost of what I do is just assemble things that other people have already built.
Basically medical science too. My wife was able to diagnose her own anemia that the doctors kept missing, and has since been able to have iron infusions.
replyThe human doctors kept ignoring the signals, kept putting it down to 'diet' and 'exercise' (even though she does plenty of both)
no blood tests were done?
reply> there were already precedents or existing pieces of knowledge, but humans had not thought to connect them
replyWe used to call that "low hanging fruit."