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SPEAKER_02 thinks it may be impossible to reverse-engineer every process perfectly, but says the goal is to reverse-engineer processes well enough to improve material performance.

Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 🔬 Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026

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“Maybe going back to the conversation we had about how since there are more than Avogadro's number of atoms, we'll never know the exact context of what happened. I think there might be a reason why we'll never be able to reverse engineer everything perfectly. But we're just trying to reverse engineer sufficiently to be able to improve the”
“the performance of the material basically.”
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