'Dune' tried to warn us against AI(www.popsci.com)

4 pointsby Brajeshwar3 hours ago2 comments

tim-tday3 hours ago
Barely. The Butlerian jihad is mentioned once or twice (though it does underlay the structure of the worldbuilding). I think Frank Herbert’s son tried to write the book but the less said about that the better.
I was curious to learn that the original essay by Butler is quite real and in someways a better warning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_among_the_Machines
- _wire_2 hours ago
  Terrible thinking is distinguished by proximate correctness under a tarp of inconsiderate or un-examined assumptions, leading to tautology and a false sense of understanding.
  In Butler's case, the terms "race", "slavery", "machine" stand out as begged questions.
  Butler offers Luddite ranting to assuage his own confusion and fear.
  Prefer Herbert's simpler, more self-reflective, nuanced warning to not desecrate the divine mystery of mind.
gzoo3 hours ago
It did!!! So many of these movies are mean to decentivize us.
- tim-tday3 hours ago
  Sci-fi, also known as speculative fiction tries to explore what technology might mean for humans who live among it in the future.
  The warnings from sci-fi are a good hint about what might go wrong with technology. Surveillance causes dehumanizing oppression (take your pick but everyone knows 1984), false accusations cause injustice (minority report among others), human augmentation and dna modification and create prejudice, division and revolutions (gataca and star trek), ai displaces humans and leads to mass unemployment and despondency (pick one)