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generating tricks is itself a trick that relies on an enormous bag of tricks we inherited through evolution by the process of natural selection.

the new tricks don't just pop into our heads even though it seems that way. nobody ever woke up and devised a new trick in a completely new field without spending years learning about that field or something adjacent to it. even the new ideas tend to be an old idea from a different field applied to a new field. tricks stand on the shoulders of giants.




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