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causal claim

The speaker attributes strong progress at institutions such as Bell Labs and IBM to experienced people doing hands-on work.

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

In their words

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“But if you look back at like Bell Labs, IBM,”
“institutions that made really good progress,”
“it was really experienced people doing hands-on work like Bardin was in the lab every day, even though he's a theorist.”
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