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I didn't recognize that expression, so to save other's the search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)#The_Butlerian_Jihad https://en.wikipedia.org/w
by mdaniel 1y ago
I didn't recognize that expression, so to save other's the search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)#The_Butlerian_Jihad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)#The_Butlerian...
> As explained in Dune, the Butlerian Jihad is a conflict taking place over 11,000 years in the future[7] (and over 10,000 years before the events of Dune), which results in the total destruction of virtually all forms of "computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots".
and thus if you use "luddites" to describe people who push back against LLMs being the second coming, and further suggest that those folks want all computers thrown in the trash, then you are deeply unserious and I have fed the troll
- kown7 1y agoIt's such a wild clash of (sci-)fi dis-/utopias. It's almost dialectic.
- dredmorbius 1y agoAnd Herbert is himself alluding to Samuel Butler, author of the anti-technological utopian novel Erewhon: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon> Full text: <https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/samuel-butler/erewhon https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/samuel-butler/erewhon>