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As companies destroy the world in pursuit of profits that will never come, I welcome our Butlerian Jihad
(lemmy.world)
For those unfamiliar the Dune series, the Butlerian Jihad was a crusade against “thinking machines”. Ultimately computers, and intelligent or thinking machines, even down to calculators are destroyed and banned. Humans who are trained in complex mental maths become known as Mentats, a sort of human computer. Just, uhh, leave all that shit on Bene Tleilax, with their Axalotl Tanks out of it.
Edit: had wrong planet name. IX -> Bene Tleilax
Is Alan anyone note worthy, or is he just a random moron?
EDIT: He's asking grok to explain it. Looks like im the moron here!
That response tweet is clearly too on the nose to not be ironic.
No clue. Checkmarks mean fuck all on that platform.
Professor of Religion at James Madison University, published in a few journals and had an article in Wired about Go (the board game) ten-ish years ago.
So is he just joking, or very stupid?
It reads like a joke to me, and his published works suggest he's not one to meekly take things at face value: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&citation_for_view=EEdRH98AAAAJ%3A0EnyYjriUFMC
methinks folk are missing that he's tweeting at grok, asking it to disseminate the quote....
I totally missed that, thank you. Changes everything.
I read it as a joke, and a good one, in my opinion. He's asking a supposedly thinking machine to explain a passage about thinking machines being used to enslave people.
For once I'd like to see grok's response. But not enough to actually go on there...