which one of you vibecoders made that map of large infrastructure projects with progress updates about each one

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You’d be surprised how many people want to put Butlerian Jihadist on a tshirt or something.

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Without computers to process data, navigate the stars, or analyze politics, the Imperium forced human biology to fill the gap. So the Butlerian Jihad did not democratize the universe, but instead concentrated power through slavery and violence into the hands of a few ruthless aristocrats.

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I know no one actually reads any books anymore, but in Dune human beings are chained together to exploit their cognition for compute because there are no more thinking computers. You are meant to see that the Butlerian Jihad stripped away the technology, so humans enslaved and automated each other.

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How many times are we going to go over this: In Dune, the Butlerian Jihad may have intended to destroy thinking machines to “free” humanity, but it accidentally created a brutal, hyper-feudal system that exploited human beings as literal substitutes for technology. It was not an AI-free paradise.

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