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As a result, the highly successful work of physicist Russell Targ was co-opted by the CIA and hidden for decades due to the demands of ‘national security.’ But when America's greatest psychic spy dies mysteriously, Targ fights to get their work declassified; even if it means going directly to his former enemies in the Soviet Union to prove the reality of ESP to the world at large. You have to build an enormous computer, with an enormous number of processing cores, and an enormous number of specialty statistical processing units, and enormous amounts of memory to store all of the data that your large language model is crunching on, and it requires enormous amounts of energy to run it all, and it requires enormous amounts of energy, and probably an awful lot of water, to take the waste heat away from your computers so that they don't fry themselves. And you've now got competitors, chomping at your heels, and you can't waste time risking enormous amounts of money, even if you can get a lot of investors eager to give you that money, trying a new, and unproven, approach to building large language models, when you already have a large language model which is working, even if you don't know how well it's working.