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SPEAKER_02 questioned the practical value of claims that quantum computers could greatly improve simulation, asking what would be simulated and observing that perfect DFT predictions would still leave DFT's existing issues.

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

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“it. agree with that like like for them people talk about how if you're a quantum computer today you could”
“could simulating so much better and I asked them okay let's accept that what would you simulate like you're still simulating perfect crystal like you still have the issues that DFT has if DFT was perfect in its prediction ability so yeah I do think people are kind of glossing over some things because quantum computing is so exciting like if we can compute in a quantum logic space instead of classical logic it's just so exciting that people are glossing over what it would actually do when it's made”
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