DieuFeb 23, 2024

I am re-reading Dune. This quote by the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam is remarkable:

“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

It's not about a Terminator-style AI-apocalypse where the machines want to kill us all dead. It's just an accurate prediction of what actually appears to be happening.

Show threadIsaac 'Atridas' Serrano GuaschFeb 23, 2024
@hllizi oh Dune has so many of those.
Show threadIsaac 'Atridas' Serrano GuaschFeb 23, 2024
@hllizi the prequels / sequels / intermezzos / whatever by the son rally are non canonical, specially in this kind of stuff
Show threadDieuFeb 24, 2024
@Atridas never read any of these.
Show threadPaul Bernhardt (moved to [email protected])Feb 24, 2024
@hllizi @Atridas Would not recommend
Show threadIsaac 'Atridas' Serrano Guasch
@PBernhardt @hllizi They're not that bad by themselves, but they really have none of the core values from the original saga.
Feb 24, 2024 at 7:46amWeb
Show threadPaul Bernhardt (moved to [email protected])Feb 24, 2024
@Atridas @hllizi Ehhhh, I have been working my way through them lately. Frank Herbert's books, then the Bulterian Jihad, now Hunters and Sandworms. The new ones miss the themes for sure, but they also really don't understand the implications of any of the technology they've invented (which is a cardinal sin for scifi, imo). However they are also just waaaaay overwritten, and, worst of all, just full of terrible plans and "competent" characters making bad choices. I am very glad to be almost done
Show threadIsaac 'Atridas' Serrano GuaschFeb 25, 2024
@PBernhardt @hllizi hunters and sandworms are particular terrible. I didn't read beyond that