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A Young Man Used AI to Build a Nuclear Fusor and Now I Must Weep


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Nazoordeen, a tall, skinny dude with lots of energy and the gesticulations to match, had been crashing there for the summer with a bunch of his university friends as they tried to soak in the start-up and AI lifestyle. In mid-2024, HudZah attended Edge Esmeralda, which is a month-long pop-up village in the Northern California wine country for optimistic technology types who want to hang out and develop their ideas. “It told me that it didn’t feel comfortable helping me.” HudZah attempted to get around the guardrails by trying to convince Claude that he wanted to build a DIY freezer, but the AI saw through the subterfuge.

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