“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.”

- Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)

@i0null The only reason I haven't done more of that is because I hate the responsibility.
@drwho great power attracts a lack of responsibility.
@i0null Being an evil god-emperor is a lot more work than people think.
@i0null This is sadly almost a cliché at this point.

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This is the curse of “smart” devices including phones, and is destined to become the curse of all cars.

@i0null It sure is sad that his son never wrote any more Dune books
@i0null the men with the machines are fully aware of this
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The recent rapid rise and rise of LLMs has done more to convert me to the Butlerian cause than any amount of deep green Luddite yapping over the decades.
@i0null writers get paid to live in a fantasy world and avoid the real issues in life by making art - they enslave themselves to a shadow realm of pity and sand worms
@gary_alderson i'm not sure. some might say that art is infinite whereas computation is arbitrary and finite.
@i0null if you are moderately successful as an artist you can get drunk daily and watch pro wrestling - it is not infinite but close enough