Terence Tao says that he has a curiosity that allows him to go deep in lots of areas, to draw connections that other experts can't find.

A generalist can connect dots that weren't connected before not because the dot is hard to connect, but because no one thought to try before.

The combinatorial possibility space across disciplines is impossibly large.

As humanity we've only tried a small subset, because human effort is expensive.

But LLMs can do a mediocre human analysis, cheaply.

So we can find the low-hanging fruit that was pre-existing, we just didn't find yet.

Even if LLMs are just able to draw connections between different disciplines, that could be useful.