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Optimizing solely against answers already established in papers or textbooks is insufficient for work intended to go beyond existing knowledge.
Liam Fedus · Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026
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“It's not enough just to do optimization against some answers that were known in some papers or textbooks because we're going beyond that.”Play from 3:04Report a misattribution
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