>HudZah was told that he could be killed by the high voltage, X-ray radiation and possibly other things. This only made him more excited. “My whole intention was, ‘If I fuck up, I’m dead, and this is why I should do it,’” he said.
It sounds like he got exactly what he wanted to.
>I must admit, though, that the thing that scared me most about HudZah was that he seemed to be living in a different technological universe than I was. If the previous generation were digital natives, HudZah was an AI native.
The one thing I'm somewhat ambivalent about is that LLMs are extremely atomizing. It's incredibly easy to go offline for months on end when you're talking to your computer.
If I got hit by a bus in 2005 when I was contributing to Linux and Postgres there were people who would pick up what I was doing and carry it forward.
If I get hit by a bus today, unless someone went through my chats, no one would really have any idea what I'd been working on and carry it on. I have a suspicion that a ton of the best and brightest have gone dark for this reason in the last two years.
The article sounds like an elaborate infomercial:
"It also excited me. Just spending a couple of hours with HudZah left me convinced that we’re on the verge of someone, somewhere creating a new type of computer with AI built into its core. I believe that laptops and PCs will give way to a more novel device rather soon."
"I’m not sure that people know what’s coming for them. You’re either with the AIs now and really learning how to use them or you’re getting left behind in a profound way."
It would be worth following the money of this submarine article.
Fusors were invented by Philo T. Farnsworth, who bankrupted himself in pursuing them as a power source.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
Neutron radiation from fusors is particularly dangerous.
You “must weep”? All you’ve demonstrated were large amounts of laughter in the video and unfettered enthusiasm and encouragement in the text. Where exactly is the weeping?
It seems like every now and then we get someone doing dangerous science experiments in their backyards that threaten not only themselves but their neighbors as well. Brings to mind David Hahn, only worse since with AI the odds of it hallucinating a step and causing a serious problem is much higher.
This paragraph was very uncanny valley for me.
> Eventually, however, HudZah wore Claude down. He filled his Project with the e-mail conversations he’d been having with fusor hobbyists, parts lists for things he’d bought off Amazon, spreadsheets, sections of books and diagrams. HudZah also changed his questions to Claude from general ones to more specific ones. This flood of information and better probing seemed to convince Claude that HudZah did know what he was doing, and the AI began to give him detailed guidance on how to build a nuclear fusor and how not to die while doing it.
By far the most interesting part of this post is this stuff:
> It’s more that I was watching HudZah navigate his laptop with an AI fluency that felt alarming to me. He was using his computer in a much, much different way than I’d seen someone use their computer before, and it made me feel old and alarmed by the number of new tools at our disposal and how HudZah intuitively knew how to tame them.
I often feel like a complete newb with AI tools, but I don't really know how to level up. I'd love to watch someone like this, just to see what's possible.
I don't know what made this a story.
He knew what a fusor is, knew how to find more information, have contact with hobbies groups already, been warned how dangerous it can be.
At this stage, AI is just a glorified search engine.
> some people are going to be in for a very uncomfortable time in short order
> it made me feel old and alarmed by the number of new tools at our disposal
> I believe that laptops and PCs will give way to a more novel device rather soon.
> So, er, like, good luck if you’re not paying attention to this stuff.
All I see is some serious effort to hoist some FOMO on me. "Something big is coming soon" is repeated ad nauseam in this article and many many others.
Wish he’d elaborate on the tools model. Article basically amounts to „he does ai magic with his computer“
*glorified search, but have to be examed by manual search.
It is a bit unrelated, but I cannot understand why the video in the article is mirrored.
FYI:
FortiGuard Intrusion Prevention - Access Blocked Web Page Blocked
You have tried to access a web page that is in violation of your Internet usage policy. Category Pornography URL https://www.corememory.com/
"AI flop house."
I'm really not sure what to make of that.
> He was using his computer in a much, much different way than I’d seen someone use their computer before, and it made me feel old and alarmed by the number of new tools at our disposal and how HudZah intuitively knew how to tame them. It also excited me. Just spending a couple of hours with HudZah left me convinced that we’re on the verge of someone, somewhere creating a new type of computer with AI built into its core. I believe that laptops and PCs will give way to a more novel device rather soon.
I was looking for a fire standard; there's a particular fire standard, BS 5824, that I don't have that is referenced on a manufacturers website, which they claim relates to fire curtains. For context, yesterday as an experiment, I asked Deepseek to summarise BS 5839 part 6, a standard I know quite well, and it did a pretty good job. Let's ask Deepseek to summarise BS 5824...
"*BS 5824:2013* is a British Standard titled "Wall and floor tiling – Design and installation of ceramic, natural stone, and mosaic tiling in normal conditions – Code of practice". It provides guidelines for the *design, materials, installation, and testing* of tiling systems in interior and exterior applications..."
What? OK let's check the standard on the website of the actual body that publishes them: BSIgroup.com
"BS 5824:1980 Specification for low voltage switchgear and controlgear for industrial use. Mounting rails. C-profile and accessories for the mounting of equipment... Cost £149"
Oh shit the manufacturer's website is completely wrong and so is AI. They literally have no clue what they are talking about. 1. Let's not specify their fire curtains in my building. 2. Don't trust the AI.
My conclusion: If the info you need to do your job is behind a paywall or only in expensive textbooks, then AI hasn't seen it and it will make something up that's probably wrong, and probably don't get it to write your website or you will look like an idiot...
I love his enthusiasm.
The elephant in the room is that this young man is indeed doing the right thing, he is just too poor to buy the right tools.
How do you think the "real scientists(TM)" work : they use AI tools too.
Do you really think you can design a tokamak Stellarator with pen and paper ?
What good engineers do is click the "topological optimization" button on their physical simulator, and then they build the machine according to the plan the computer make.
Do you really think deep-seek can't use your COMSOL or Ansys multiphysics tool ?
Finite element Method was invented in the 1950s, our more modern AIs use some variants of Physics-Informed Neural Networks to solve the differential equations of physics.
LLM without reinforcement learning won't invent your flying saucer from reading stuff on the internet, but let your local AI play for a day with a MHD simulator https://www.jp-petit.org/science/mhd/m_mhd_e/m_mhd_e.htm and the sky is not the limit.
Why use AI to make good content, when you can take unremarkable content and add the string "AI" to pretend it's interesting. You could have just done an old-school web search for this!
https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Build-a-Fusion-Reactor-... https://makezine.com/projects/nuclear-fusor/ https://fusor.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=3247
The "artificially intelligent" aspect is trivial.