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AI runs on GPUs, and GPUs are made out of sand, so maybe AI is sand's way of organizing itself.

I have a hard time dismissing those stinky crystal worshiping new-age hippies, since I spend so much of my time playing with patterns of electrons in little silicon chips.

Hippies get a little too excited about the minds of the crystal and spirits inhabiting rocks and communicating through ethereal protocols too, yet here we are in 2024, programming and communicating with silicon CPUs and GPUs and wireless internet smartphones ensconced in shiny layers of Gorilla Glass that we obsessively carry around with us everywhere and continuously gaze into and hold up at each other and rub and tap on and talk and listen to.

Ways to Make Sand (2020) [video] (youtube.com):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDyvjkAs5-Y&list=ULcxqQ59vzy...

HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38037110

TodePond 2023 Roundup:

https://www.todepond.com/wikiblogarden/year/2023/roundup/

>What’s next?

>2024 is the year of chaos. Much more will happen.

>The next sandpond saga video will be TOP 99 WAYS TO MAKE SAND.

>There will soon be a vote for the one after that. If you want to vote, sign up to my patreon.

https://patreon.com/TodePond

Top 99 ways to make sand repo: