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> LLMs were invented by sand companies to sell more sand.

Big sand will eat us all. First they squeezed out all the small time sand farmers, now they own the market and need to boost throughput!

I suppose the childhood fear of quicksand wasn't irrational after all.

Well most of the highest purity quartz for IC manufacturing (crucibles) comes from the Spruce Mine funny enough.

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/does-all-semiconducto...

> Big sand will eat us all.

Sand companies more like sandworms who are producing melange (Chips) and not hesitating to eat away its consumers (Users) on the way... (# Dune vibes)

If we’re gonna go all the way down this road, I’ve seen the global economy described as “extracting carbon from the earth and putting it into the atmosphere as fast as possible”.

Carbon based lifeform trying to create Silicon based lifeform

Elon is doing both.