In Dune the law is not to make a machine in the "likeness" of a human mind. Not sure if that implies actual thinking or just being Turing compliant. Herbert probably did not anticipate there being one and not the other.
That is a fair point. If they were actually making machines in likeness with the human mind and not spicy autocomplete, AI would be impressive and not a scam.
If anyone cares these are the “Legends of Dune” novels: (1) The Butlerian Jihad, (2) The Machine Crusade, (3) The Battle of Corrin, set about 10,000 years before Dune.
The new HBO series is a take on the “Schools of Dune” trilogy set about 80-100 years after the Jihad.
The Butlerian Jihad was a pivotal event in the fictional world of Frank Herbert's Dune. It was a war against machines that had become so advanced they threatened the very existence of humanity.
Ain't that the truth. Apparently the notion was based off a short story by Samuel Butler where the humans were concerned the machines would out-evolve them.
I feel our situation is significantly different, but the starkness of the situation is similar.
Though shalt not let Billionaires poison the infosphere with algorithmically generated systemic misinfo and soulless, dead muzak using the data scraped by the metric tonne from real humans.
first episode of dune: prophecy and they open it showing the butlerian jihad and i was immediately like "...i want a show about the butlerian jihad now, why'd you do this to me?"
I read the first one for several pages, thinking, ok, this isn’t good, but at least it’s just some introductory scene-setting exposition, right? Wrong. The whole thing was going to be like that. Dear reader, I had to put that book down. It was *awful*.
It almost is. Their of fear of "thinking machines" meanwhile there's Valya out there compelling her sisters to kill themselves with the "voice" while cheating and using computers to run her DNA database on bloodlines to control the universe.
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The new HBO series is a take on the “Schools of Dune” trilogy set about 80-100 years after the Jihad.
People will be like Trump to a Putin
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I feel our situation is significantly different, but the starkness of the situation is similar.
It's just digital gholas all the way down.
- PG Wodehouse
Then I realized you were referring to Dune.
There are no good guys.