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Banning AI saved humanity in ‘Dune.’ So why can’t this work for us?
- more_corn 3y agoDidn’t AI rule humanity with an iron fist for a thousand years before the Butlerian Jihad? Sometimes you can’t learn the lesson till you experience the pain. Then again it probably won’t be that bad. It probably will be some bad but not all bad. As most things turn out to be.
- willdough 4y agoUh, we don't have the "spice" so we don't have "mentats"?
- garbagecoder 4y agoOmnius was an actual AI.
- duringmath 4y agoYou want to ban people from programming and doing statistics and math? How would that work? I'm more concerned about this kind of luddism taking root
- verdverm 4y agoWe should base our decisions on the outcomes in a work of fiction? Are they high on the spice or something?
- RegnisGnaw 4y agoIf we are to do that, I'd say Battlefield Earth is the superior choice ;)
- verdverm 4y agoYou don't like 1984? Star Trek would be my pick
- RegnisGnaw 4y agoSo who's going to enforce it? The Spacing Guild? The Bene Gesserit? Shaddam IV? The Landsraad?
- mitchbob 4y agoArchived: https://archive.ph/2023.05.11-164036/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/11/ai-pause-optimism-dune/ https://archive.ph/2023.05.11-164036/https://www.washingtonp...