Michael Levin's controversial Platonic Space paper published; PackyM bets on him over trillion-dollar LLMs
RazRazcle · x · 2026-09-11
Biologist Michael Levin announced the official peer-reviewed version of his "Platonic Space" paper is out. He calls it his most incendiary position in decades, drawing serious pushback, pleas to drop the topic, nasty emails, and even retaliation in unrelated paper reviews.
Investor PackyM amplified it with a bet: the race for science's most important results is a two-horse race between LLMs backed by trillions of dollars, armies of geniuses, and the full weight of capitalism — and Michael Levin. "My money is on Michael Levin."
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