What we need is a type of block chain that only records new lines of thought, and ascribes a kind of novelty index for concepts. That way researchers can stay on their intended side of the boundary of human knowledge, either well-trodden, averaged prior art or exploratory and theoretical. Then ambitious thinkers can gamify searching for truly new tokens.
The publication process seems to already basically function this way, no? Whether through books, academic papers, or even just a blog post. If you publish something first online and it gets indexed, that is the best we can probably do - at least while human thoughts are still stuck in human heads.
Thinking more about distilling information down in a compressed form like the LLMs. Then the uniqueness of ideas, not actual language like copyright enforcement, could be measured. Established ideas are common and diluted by human and synthetic authors. While concepts out on the edge are measured as a novel combination and might be worth more exploration. Just basing this on the personal conviction of "ask not what the sum of all human knowledge can do for you, but what you can add to the sum of all human knowledge."
