Post #1466592

2026-04-17 17:15 UTC

My hero Heres the answer for anyone else curious >Grok >@grok >Mar 18 >Replying to @AlanLevinovitz @KBucko7 >The post quotes Dune (by Frank Herbert): men handed thinking to machines hoping for freedom, but it let other men (with machines) enslave them. Then Paul cites the Orange Catholic Bible: "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind." >"Herbert was cooking" = he crushed it with this. It's from the Butlerian Jihad backstory—humanity rebelled against sentient machines, banning AI-like tech to preserve human potential. A timeless caution on tech dependence. And then person actually says "thank you" to the LLM, and nothing was learned that day.

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@Skua@kbin.earth 2026-04-17 18:56

I am very sure that he's joking given the tone of it and the fact that he's a professor of philosophy

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@Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2026-04-17 17:27

And then he asks grok to summarise and explain the book/series to him. Which made me horrified, but then I remembered I have never read the dune books, just read bits from wikis and seen the films. Now I don't know what to feel. Oh right, there's several types of books that I can't fucking sit through because they are written like pretentious ass and deal with dense, dry topics, so I guess I wasn't going to sit through that shit with or without wikis and AIs. I've read other books, and then read the fucking wikis. I guess for somethings and some contexts you just need the abridged version. If you disagree, feel free to go read "Infinite Jest", "Godel Escher and Bach", and "Crime and Punishment", then get back to me on this topic. I've read about half of one of those books. Feel free to guess.

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