Inside the Monument to the Uprising of the People of Kordun and Banija, a Yugoslav WWII memorial in Petrova Gora, Croatia. Designed by sculptor Vojin Baki?. (Flickr)
me as a kid reading Dune: I appreciate the detailed world-building that justifies why everyone fights with swords and has mental powers, but the idea of a Butlerian Jihad against computers is pretty silly
me in 2025, trying desperately to find the three (3) places you need to go to to disable the latest helpful AI assistant that’s inserted itself into my work chat and is advising me to do things that would be a breach of federal law: Oh Now I Get It
I always thought the spec fic religious prohibitions against AI were overblown, but now I am coming to appreciate that this is just the level of social oomph you need to have behind a such a prohibition for it to even have a chance of actually being effective