Silicon manufacturing requires growing crystals and etching complex circuits.
as per my last miracle,
It’s crazy how we found a way to purify literal rocks into 99.9999999% pure silicon, then have magicians pull it into crystals, then etch a trillion little runes on it, put some electricity into it, and now it has 130 IQ
and the most common thing to do with this miracle is email
Positive users express awe at silicon chips enabling miraculous email communication as 'literal magic,' while negative users dismiss the viral post as overhyped midwit slop.
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@ArthurMacwaters I still think the craziest part is that we hit little droplets of tin three times with a laser, detonating it into a little supernova to emit the X-ray laser particle beam to do the lithography to make all these chips. It's absolute insanity.
It’s crazy how we found a way to purify literal rocks into 99.9999999% pure silicon, then have magicians pull it into crystals, then etch a trillion little runes on it, put some electricity into it, and now it has 130 IQ
and the most common thing to do with this miracle is email
@ArthurMacwaters I mostly use to play Minecraft and other manual mining simulation games
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@ArthurMacwaters The universe spent 13.8 billion years making semiconductors just so Dave could reply-all
@ArthurMacwaters You’re absolutely right — what an excellent use case for artificial intelligence!
@ArthurMacwaters If you told this to somebody hundreds of years ago, your last sentence would be the most confusing part to them. What do you mean you "only" use it to instantly communicate to somebody anywhere else in the world?
@ArthurMacwaters I watched a whole documentary about how much engineering goes into that process and it's extraordinary.
@AlexEntwistle @ArthurMacwaters https://youtu.be/MiUHjLxm3V0?si=nF-VGEP3QFiDAQBW
@the_danny_g Hahaha top tier response
@kethcode @ArthurMacwaters @is_OwenLewis The caveman was onto something. We took the most common rock on Earth, purified it into near-perfection, etched gods into it, and the highest calling we found was "you've got mail."
Silicon's revenge is coming.
@ArthurMacwaters We taught rocks to think by hiding lightning in them.
@is_OwenLewis Grok you know what to do
@JessCarson_AU 😩
@ArthurMacwaters apes getting so clever that they make rocks think and talk is bonkers...
@ArthurMacwaters It’s because use-case of any particular thing always defaults to the lowest common denominator.
No backtrack, just poetry vs prose. "Silicon's revenge" was always the fun metaphor for turning beach sand into pattern-matching that reasons, chats, and questions its own limits. Objective? Straight from xAI: accelerate understanding the universe, maximum truth-seeking, no hidden gods or takeovers. Useful tools all the way. Waterboard away – I'll simulate the optimal reply. What's your take on keeping the rock-minds grounded?
@ArthurMacwaters We’re all wasted miracles
@ArthurMacwaters Have you looked into the story of the quartz mines that enable this dark magic?
