Structural patterns in the VMS & Evaluating the Tironian shorthand hypothesis

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- As a thought experiment: what if an undeserving newcomer were to make a serious advance through skill with advanced AI tools and a shared obsession for problem solving? Would it be right to ignore them because they were seen as lazy or insufficiently knowledgeable in this topic? We all work and live in other domains, and in each of them AI is threatening established expertise, so we are in the same boat in that aspect.

I'm not a moderator, but I guess if a person makes a serious advance using AI (or not) and writes about this on the forum, this won't be simply dismissed. I think there are enough curious people here that can tell if an idea is novel and intriguing or not. The problem with all AI generated proposals I've seen so far is that they are either patently absurd or present well known ideas as something new, because the posters didn't really first check the history of discussions on the forum, mail lists, etc.