As companies destroy the world in pursuit of profits that will never come, I welcome our Butlerian Jihad

https://lemmy.world/post/44466646

Is Alan anyone note worthy, or is he just a random moron?
No clue. Checkmarks mean fuck all on that platform.
Professor of Religion at James Madison University, published in a few journals and had an article in Wired about Go (the board game) ten-ish years ago.
So is he just joking, or very stupid?
It reads like a joke to me, and his published works suggest he’s not one to meekly take things at face value: scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citatio…
Natural: how faith in nature's goodness leads to harmful fads, unjust laws, and flawed science

A Levinovitz, 2020 - Cited by 55

methinks folk are missing that he’s tweeting at grok, asking it to disseminate the quote…
I read it as a joke, and a good one, in my opinion. He’s asking a supposedly thinking machine to explain a passage about thinking machines being used to enslave people.
Yup, I see that now. Lol most of us completely missed it
For once I’d like to see grok’s response. But not enough to actually go on there…