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opinion claim

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.”
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