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In some cases, an experiment intended to produce one thing yields evidence of a previously unidentified structure instead.
Liam Fedus · 🔬 Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026
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“exactly 100 percent um and a negative result you know in some cases is actually”
“we intended to make the following thing and then we're actually able to identify a new structure that hadn't previously been identified.”
“So it's negative in some respect, like we intended to do something else but something else emerged from the data.”55:41Report a misattribution
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