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Collective systems can exhibit qualitative behavior that differs from what one would expect from the simple laws governing their individual components.
Liam Fedus · 🔬 Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026
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“which is basically you may understand all the basic laws of something,”
“but when you...”
“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,”16:45Report a misattribution
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