Maybe AI's real edge isn't reasoning from scratch. It's lateral thinking across domains you'll never read into

• AI has read the internet, so it can pattern match across many, many domains very easily
• Example: fisheries population science solved a measurement-confound problem decades ago. Catch counts rise even as the real stock collapses because effort (boats, gear, sonar) improved alongside it
• The fix there (strip out the effort covariates, model the residual as the real signal) maps cleanly onto confounded measurement problems in totally unrelated fields
• Academia used to push cross-domain work deliberately, to break researchers out of their own bubble. AI can now do that same cross-pollination on demand

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