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• @luciferofastora@feddit.org 2026-08-26 06:51

  Tell me you don’t know Dune without telling me: The hate on this game is where anti-AI becomes Butlerian Jihadism to deny indie and solo devs this tool this mindless anti-AI hate You haven’t the slightest clue what the BJ was about if you equate it with non-violent expression of opinions, denying indie devs a tool and call it mindless hate. To catch you up, the premise as outlined by the Reverend Mother: “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” The people using thinking machines that were targeted by the Butlerians weren’t indie devs, nor solo devs, nor other “small people”. It also wasn’t a harmless creative tool. They were technocrats using it to enslave people. I think it’s quite understandable that people would resent enslavement. That’s not mindless hate, that’s a quite natural desire to be free. You wouldn’t call abolitionists “mindless whip-haters” either, would you? And the result wasn’t a few people speaking out against these users of thinking machines, but a century of bloody revolt until they had destroyed not just the AI, but also all other machines with even simple logical components. The vast difference in both scale and nature between this criticism of a particular kind of thinking machine we don’t like (GenAI) being used in making programs for a thinking machine we do like (computers) and a slave revolt turned all-out war of annihilation against calculators makes this comparison just plain bizarre.

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