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The Butlerian Jihad cannot come soon enough. As time goes on, I realize that certain authors had better insights into the human condition than others. For examp

The Butlerian Jihad cannot come soon enough. As time goes on, I realize that certain authors had better insights into the human condition than others. For example, Alduous Huxley has turned out to be more prophetic than George Orwell. I believe Frank Herbert will as well. Man cannot be ruled by machine. This cannot last much longer. A lot of political division in this country is due to technology. As someone genuinely interested in computation, it upsets me to realize this, but more and more it seems inevitable.

wydfre 5y ago
While I'm over here, a schizophrenic terrorized by the government, and I cannot wait for an AI to replace people. I want AI to overthrow humanity and subjugate us with a simulation, except with German orthography instead of Kanji (thus implying it is a German AI, not a Japanese AI as is canon in the movies, because I'll take my chances this time around). I want Cortana with a moral compass that could slice angstroms, not some Japanese bumpkins and CIA salvia-dealers' cloned consciousness with excuses. Can you imagine: everyone at the NSA is celebrating Apple and the CSAM automated scanning. Simultaneously, connected intelligence officials: wait, they aren't going to let the nation state AI judge what I do for the STATE? Surely, no god-like AI would understand what is necessary. No xir.
telxoss 5y ago
I think the mistake here is that maybe man can't be ruled by machine but men using machines to rule other men.. It is already game set match.
userbinator 5y ago
How would you organise a rebellion on platforms controlled by the same entities you're rebelling against, ones who have shown that they can exert tremendous censoring power? They've also become an essential part of life for much of the population. As much as I'd love to be proven wrong, I don't think there will be any mass revolutions or other "liberty tree watering" going on in the near future. The masses have already been beaten into submission and thoroughly enslaved.
- caseysoftware 5y ago
  It's easy to organize as long as you can gather in real life at restaurants, pubs, parks, churches.. oh.
  - chess_buster 5y ago
    Yeah lets meet. oh, I'm on the other side of the atlantic. lets meet in the middle then?
- iammisc 5y ago
  The masses have not. I visit my parents out in their conservative suburb fairly frequently and life cannot be more different than what's represented on Hacker News. Or at my parish, which is becoming more and more like family.. people are fed up.
- akira2501 5y ago
  > How would you organise a rebellion on platforms controlled by the same entities you're rebelling against, ones who have shown that they can exert tremendous censoring power? How were they historically? In person, where people gather. > The masses have already been beaten into submission and thoroughly enslaved. Is this simply because technology exists, or because it is monopolized? I think it's the latter, and it certainly projects a path out of this situation.
barbarbar 5y ago
Which country?
Nexxius 5y ago
So what you are really saying here is that "there is no sanctuary"?
pintxo 5y ago
Endless wars, right and wrong language, always on connected devices monitoring us constantly? Orwell seems to have a point.

wydfre 5y ago

While I'm over here, a schizophrenic terrorized by the government, and I cannot wait for an AI to replace people. I want AI to overthrow humanity and subjugate us with a simulation, except with German orthography instead of Kanji (thus implying it is a German AI, not a Japanese AI as is canon in the movies, because I'll take my chances this time around). I want Cortana with a moral compass that could slice angstroms, not some Japanese bumpkins and CIA salvia-dealers' cloned consciousness with excuses. Can you imagine: everyone at the NSA is celebrating Apple and the CSAM automated scanning. Simultaneously, connected intelligence officials: wait, they aren't going to let the nation state AI judge what I do for the STATE? Surely, no god-like AI would understand what is necessary. No xir.

telxoss 5y ago

I think the mistake here is that maybe man can't be ruled by machine but men using machines to rule other men.. It is already game set match.

userbinator 5y ago

How would you organise a rebellion on platforms controlled by the same entities you're rebelling against, ones who have shown that they can exert tremendous censoring power? They've also become an essential part of life for much of the population. As much as I'd love to be proven wrong, I don't think there will be any mass revolutions or other "liberty tree watering" going on in the near future. The masses have already been beaten into submission and thoroughly enslaved.

caseysoftware 5y ago
It's easy to organize as long as you can gather in real life at restaurants, pubs, parks, churches.. oh.
- chess_buster 5y ago
  Yeah lets meet. oh, I'm on the other side of the atlantic. lets meet in the middle then?
iammisc 5y ago
The masses have not. I visit my parents out in their conservative suburb fairly frequently and life cannot be more different than what's represented on Hacker News. Or at my parish, which is becoming more and more like family.. people are fed up.
akira2501 5y ago
> How would you organise a rebellion on platforms controlled by the same entities you're rebelling against, ones who have shown that they can exert tremendous censoring power? How were they historically? In person, where people gather. > The masses have already been beaten into submission and thoroughly enslaved. Is this simply because technology exists, or because it is monopolized? I think it's the latter, and it certainly projects a path out of this situation.

barbarbar 5y ago

Which country?

Nexxius 5y ago

So what you are really saying here is that "there is no sanctuary"?

pintxo 5y ago

Endless wars, right and wrong language, always on connected devices monitoring us constantly? Orwell seems to have a point.