Death by LambdaMar 23
Charlie Stross
If the answer is "Donald Trump" then we need a Butlerian Jihad, stat.
Mar 23 at 9:32pmWeb
Show threadsleet01Mar 23
@cstross Yeah, so many of the problems AI is purportedly going to solve come from people not being very smart, so AI being as smart as "people" is not sufficient.
Show threadkitMar 23

@cstross We need a Butlerian Jihad anyway.

Not because the machines may be more or less smart, but because humans are already handing off their thinking to them.

I’d be a lot happier if they were genuinely sentient, rather than merely ”made in the likeness of a mind”.

Show threadSteveg58Mar 23
@cstross
But that is a very low bar to clear. Should we not, at least, aim for Arthur Dent?
Show threadHighlandLawyerMar 23
@Steveg58 @cstross
What? I don't understand. Where's the tea?
Show threadSteveg58Mar 23
@HighlandLawyer @cstross
Somewhere other than the vending machine.
Show threadPWMar 23
@cstross
A calculator is smarter than trump and his administration!
Show threadewhacMar 24
@PuzzlePW @cstross ...A calculator with dead, leaking batteries. That were installed backwards.
Show threadDopes The FrogmanMar 23
@cstross because we already know which people
Show threadEric A. MeyerMar 23
@cstross As someone around here said recently, at this point Butlerian Jihad is the moderate position.
Show threadTDayMar 24
@cstross Well I think a toaster could replace most of Trumps cabinet .
Show threadAlynMar 24

@TerryDay

@cstross

Show threadWellsiteGeoMar 24

@cstross Hudson would be the man to organise it.

Maybe I didn't read that term the way Herbert wrote it?

Show threadeickotMar 24
@cstross https://x.com/ClintPiticlint/status/1474680095814074368
Clint Piticlint (@ClintPiticlint) on X

–O sea, que Skynet vencerá porque las máquinas se harán más inteligentes. –No, no. No hará falta porque los humanos seréis cada vez más gilipollas. Nuestro líder es una Nespresso.

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Show threadReid Mar 24
@cstross the analog circuitry in a CRT TV is smarter than trump
Show threadEleanor SaittaMar 24
@cstross
No, see, they just mean that they're going to make the people stupider
Show threadAngus McIntyreMar 24

@cstross Before we rush into this, I think we should find out exactly what Herbert meant by “the Orange Catholic Bible”.

If it turns out that the God Emperor of Dumb is somehow linked to a galaxy-spanning future religion, we can't stop at just eliminating the machines.