LurchDec 30
geoff martin

“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 (1966)

#ai

Oct 20, 2024 at 8:06pmMetatext
Show threadJonathan WrightDec 28

@ggmartin

Sadly, so very true.

We also lose the ability to think for ourselves in many cases, and in the case of AI to be able to discern what is truth from what we're presented with.

Show threadYoraDec 28
@ggmartin Thousands of years later, people would have forgotten what that actually meant. But "thinking machines" did not refer to calculators and spreadsheets.
Show threadAngela MillerDec 28
@ggmartin
The Butlerian Jihad timeline was not the one I expected to be on until recently. Seems like it might be a thing.
Show threadD. G. MarshallJan 3

@Alternatecelt @ggmartin

There's never a Butlerian Jihad around when you need one.

Show threadJ. David EisenbergJan 3
@Alternatecelt It’s Dune’s 60th anniversary. Only fitting.
Show threadMeznor UNGRATEFUL MIDDLE POWERDec 28
@ggmartin heh I recently reread these books this year. Seemed appropriately relevant to do so.
Show threadLady ErrantDec 28
@ggmartin @aral I live near Dune Peninsula park, named after Frank Herbert's work and built on top of the copper smelter slag pile that partly inspired Dune. I walk around that park and I think of how 100% exactly on target he was about what giving machines the ability to think (or the facsimile there of) would do to us.
Show thread🇳🇿   💉*9 RogerDec 28
@ggmartin it is worth noting that Herbert's machines did think, unlike today's LLMs which really don't.
Show threadZdeněk DoležalDec 28
@rogerparkinson @ggmartin pokud by myslely, byli by jsme už dávno ztraceni.
Show threadSimon ZerafaDec 28

@ggmartin

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