ASML in turn wraps a bunch of companies for lenses (Carl Zeiss), lasers (Trumpf), etc [0]

Given lenses and microchips are both made from sand, I'm gonna conspiracy theory that LLMs were invented by sand companies to sell more sand.

[0] https://www.robotsops.com/complete-list-of-all-suppliers-and...

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burnte 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

> 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!

	▲	nickpinkston 6 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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...
	▲	np1810 6 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> 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)
	▲	Cthulhu_ 6 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I suppose the childhood fear of quicksand wasn't irrational after all.

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Arubis 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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”.

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slt2021 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Carbon based lifeform trying to create Silicon based lifeform

	▲	aakkaakk 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Elon is doing both.