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A boy built a computer inside Minecraft, so powerful it ran Minecraft. His name is Sam Yuri.
He started in 2013 just messing with redstone doors, simple stuff. Then he built Chungus 2, an 8-bit CPU the size of a city, 1 hertz clock speed, 256 bytes of RAM. But that wasn't enough.
He recruited two friends, 10 months of work. They strapped on 8 kilobytes of memory, a dedicated graphics processor with 6 kilobytes of video RAM, and a 96 by 64 pixel screen. They wrote assembly code by hand, and then they booted it up. A tiny flickering two-color version of Minecraft running inside Minecraft.
Then he went silent for years, until he returned and asked ChatGPT a single question. The AI said yes, so he did. 5 million parameters, a 439 million block colossus spanning over a kilometer of virtual space. 40 kilobyte tokenizer, positional embedding, matrix multipliers the size of cathedral, 6 million bytes of memory. All running on redstone, all vanilla, no mods, no cheats.
It takes 2 hours to answer a question, but that's not the point. The point is what he proved, that a kid with redstone and curiosity can out-engineer reality, that limitations are just invitations. Sam Yuri didn't just play Minecraft, he rewired what it means to create. And the craziest part? He's probably just getting started.