Banning AI saved humanity in ‘Dune.’ So why can’t this work for us?

You want to ban people from programming and doing statistics and math? How would that work?

I'm more concerned about this kind of luddism taking root

Didn’t AI rule humanity with an iron fist for a thousand years before the Butlerian Jihad? Sometimes you can’t learn the lesson till you experience the pain.

Then again it probably won’t be that bad.

It probably will be some bad but not all bad. As most things turn out to be.

Archived: https://archive.ph/2023.05.11-164036/https://www.washingtonp...

We should base our decisions on the outcomes in a work of fiction?

Are they high on the spice or something?

If we are to do that, I'd say Battlefield Earth is the superior choice ;)

You don't like 1984?

Star Trek would be my pick

So who's going to enforce it? The Spacing Guild? The Bene Gesserit? Shaddam IV? The Landsraad?

Omnius was an actual AI.

Uh, we don't have the "spice" so we don't have "mentats"?