You could say exactly the same about humans. Ex nihilo nihil fit. Every human depends on a vast corpus of prior human knowledge to be able to accomplish anything. This doesn't mean they have no intelligence.

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huty 7 hours ago | parent [-]

This is dumb.

At the margin the innovative human matters.

What that means for the rest of society is TBD.

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TeMPOraL 7 hours ago | parent [-]

At the margin innovation is just taking the obvious next step first.

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huty2 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Says the person whose never produced a novel thought in his life!

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