Society captures useful ideas as cached answers.

If the idea is useful, it's more likely to be maintained or copied.

Or written down or transformed into a more durable form.

Ideas that are not useful (for example, are not effective) are not maintained; they evaporate away.

If there's a useful idea for your problem, why come up with something new? Just use the thing that is known to work.

The swarm intelligence discovers new useful ideas and caches them.

Which means that at any time step, if you random sample ideas, the vast majority are useful ones.

LLMs then capture all of those useful ideas that someone bothered to write down, embeds them into a crystallized mirror that can be used to reflect society's cached answers.

The best object to help seed humanity if it needs to be rebuilt would be an LLM in a box.

A simple black box with a screen, keyboard, that only needs a power source to run.