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 ...water cannot rise above its source. 
 That’s good in theory, but doesn’t really apply here. Because the amount of knowledge we have, bs the amount that any one person can understand or take into account has a delta of orders of magnitude.

So in this case the “source” isn’t what an intelligent human can produce, it’s the collection of everything that all intelligent humans have produced.

So LLMs at a large enough scale can account for much more than the average human, and even display “logic” far better than most humans, merely by consequence of accounting for greater pools of knowledge/information.

But you are correct in theory, just not in practice with what I think you are implying.

My evidence is just that state of the art LLMs are already more intellectually reliable and have stronger logic than the avg person. The average person is real dumb honestly.