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The collective behavior of many interacting components is difficult to model because of its complexity.
Liam Fedus · Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026
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“You add many things they behave qualitatively distinct differently from how the simple like physics should tell you So understanding how lots of things behave together It seems like it should be simple like beginning laws are simple,”
“but the collective behavior is so complicated that it's really hard to model”Play from 16:50Report a misattribution
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