I saw the quote on my feed a month ago or so but lost the link. I had to make it a hazard sign...
@florian had to look it up. Now I'm curious what an extreme one would look like cuz yeesh
@florian @Gargron As I recall, that didn’t really make the universe of Dune more equitable and less exploitative.
@michaelgemar @florian @Gargron I guess that is why it is the moderate position. Destroying AI is only the start to destroying all hierarchy.

@florian

Fun fact for the people who haven't already heard about this:

The "Butler" in this refers to a real person, who warned about artificial life in the 1800s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_among_the_Machines

Darwin among the Machines - Wikipedia

@florian Shouldn’t it have a “no robots” graphic on the left?
@florian ... what generator did you use, or did you do this by hand?
@florian it's not like they banned all technology. There is plenty you can do without computers.

@florian

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind"

-- Orange Catholic Bible (OCB)

in Dune

@florian

Note that the Butlerian Jihad did turn the entire surface of the Earth into glass, using atomics.

(... in the Dune books.)

@JeffGrigg as the sticker says, "the moderate position"... 

@florian

Yea; humans were on plenty of other planets by that time.

(in the books)

@florian oh no, now I want this as a sticker 😅