the subtext behind, “it’s just linear algebra,” is that consciousness is magic and you can’t make magic from non-magic

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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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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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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 decided to learn the math of the Mandelbrot set and it turns out IT IS NOT EVEN HARD MATH! IT IS SO SIMPLE!! IT IS JUST ITERATING z²+c !!! BROS ARE OUT HERE SEEING SELF-SIMILAR STRUCTURE IN SQUARING A NUMBER AND ADDING A CONSTANT 😭😭😭

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