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@kellogh @futurebird @dahukanna @PavelASamsonov where the model generates seemingly very large numbers of new possible chemicals, drugs or proteins or whatnot. But then experts review the results and say most of them are implausible or useless.

You can generate novelty through randomness. Novelty itself isn't value, because most new statements about the world haven't been uttered before precisely because they're false. The problem here is that the bullshit sounds "truthy" as Colbert coined it.