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Are we living through the early stages of the Butlerian Jihad? Every time I scroll through my feed of Ghiblified pics and OpenAI updates, I can’t help but hear the Dune warning echoing: “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”
Herbert wrote this in 1965, yet somehow perfectly captured our current struggle with AI dependency. We’re rapidly creating a world where critical thinking becomes optional – we ask AI for answers rather than developing our own insights.
Look at how tech naming has evolved: LOTR gave us Palantir and Anduril in the 2000s-2010s. Now we have startups literally calling themselves “Thinking Machines” (straight from Dune).
What fascinates me is how Dune doesn’t present AI as killer robots, but something more insidious – a gradual surrender of human agency and thought.
Anyone else think Dune deserves a serious re-examination as we navigate the rapid advancement of AI? The parallels are becoming uncomfortably accurate.
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