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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The real trolley problem is that we don’t sufficiently fund public transit. Give it the money it needs so we can serve and / or kill the general public!

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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie

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This is a beautiful tribute to a bunch of "little" projects that are wildly successful and make our world go and make things better sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

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