'Krapivin was not held back by the conventional wisdom for the simple reason that he was unaware of it. “I did this without knowing about Yao’s conjecture"'

https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/

Many such cases of progress being stifled by the chained elephant.

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LLMs are quite bad at giving anything novel, the prompting _is_ the insight

I wonder if you could get an LLM to figure this out if you prodded it enough, but without giving it the answer?