alt Hacker NewsThe Butlerian Jihad Has Begun
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This was hard to read; the writer really did not come from the school of succinctness. If the writer is reading this, please try making an edit where you remove as much of the fluff and rephrase sentences like:
> When I read this detail, tucked away near the end of a Guardian article, I winced to see another of my predictions come true; that the ‘Butlerian Jihad’ would soon enter public life not as mere literary metaphor, but as a kind of political vocabulary, one destined to spiral into paranoia and violence.
Into something like:
> This idea of the "Butlerian Jihad" horrified me. We are misunderstanding Herbert's subtle warning about humans being forced to become like machines as a rallying cry against AI companies. I fear that this will lead to paranoia and violence.
I think that if the entire article was edited like that it would be a lot more readable.
> “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
Right.
This author sure has an ax to grind against an imaginary online "Left" strawman
Belgian action group "Code Rood" (Code Red) is planning to occupy a data centre next week... https://code-rouge.be/
2 months ago also:
> A politician’s home was shot at 13 times over a data center vote.
> A shooting at the home of an Indianapolis city councillor is bringing new attention to a fight that's been building in communities across the country: the growing backlash against new AI-focused data centers.
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/politi...
And we will lose.
Like dinosaurs lost to mice, and like chimps lost to humans.
Every time I see "Butlerian Jihad", I know the person is more familiar with Brian Herbert's atrocious books than Frank's.
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A family member of mine is mayor of a provincial town. She has to deal with protesters reenacting the Neurenberg rallies, angry drug dealers and the run of the mill psychiatric melt down citizen. There is a panic button in her penthouse.
Nobody is crying about Jihad and ten years from now she will be living in the green zone.