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LOL this is great

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If you’ve been dreaming of that once-in-a-lifetime trip to Machu Picchu, do it now. This kid is going to eventually blow up California and take Peru with it.

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Loved this! I was one of the organizers of the event you mentioned, Edge Esmeralda. It was so fun to have Hudzah and his friends from Waterloo there. It inspired a lot of us to be a lot more experimental in what we can build.

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I feel like I already read this article in 1999- "Kid builds nuclear fission device in garage using plans downloaded from the Internet".

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"The nuclear boy scout". Who did contaminate his parents place and himself with radioisotopes.

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This is incredible. Also my new life goal is to use the phrase “LLMed up” in the wild

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NGL, this makes me want to build shit!

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Fascinating! We are on the cusp of something great, mind-boggling and scary. Wonderful writing, as usual.

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The future belongs to those who out-prompt the rest.

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I've been thinking lately that there's some weird weird stuff happening in Silicon Valley.

AI seems to be turning smart people into agents who can do things physically. Because people have limbs and can put things together that AI cannot yet do.

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Right, together at a new scale we are Technology ;)

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beautiful

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What happens when outsourcing intelligence becomes so ubiquitous that the “drivers” of the intelligence lose their ability to drive?

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The kid couldn't source any tritium, I sincerely hope?! Deuterium is easily come by, but the entry level fusion is going to be d+t.

Also, I wouldn't visit this guy's place without a dosimeter and radiation detector, just in case.

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Nice, can't wait for when people who don't know anything "trust their life" to AI to create various chemicals and other stuff, and off themselves and/or everybody in their house

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I remember totse

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