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Man granted first-of-its-kind religious exemption against mandatory AI use at work
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One Butlerian Jihad comming right up, Sir!
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind
Where does it say that lol
They're referencing Dune. In the lore AI tried to kill humanity, the war was called the Butlerian Jihad. As a result, AI was banned across the galaxy. I don't know why you're being downvoted just for not knowing
I think the downvotes are from the "lol" where the question mark normally goes.
As is praxis.
IIRC, the war didn't start because AI started killing humans. It started because humans opposed AI replacing them. There was a religious sect (Butlarians) who opposed this, and they eventually rose up to fight the machines. They weren't directly attacked first.
Bah! It shall not stand that a man of such impervious ignorance should discomfort our cultured company!
It's in the Orange Catholic Bible
If you read the bible upside down, it makes much more sense.
Trump was trying to tell us that but money got in the way.
I see what you did there, but in the Dune universe, the Orange Catholics are a religious sect, not a jab at bad makeup and trump.
The book probably has nothing to do with Christian Catholicism, and is not a religious sect but a book. That's a common mistake people make. Catholic is a word outside of that particular sect of Christianity. It means "universal." In the context of Dune, the Orange Catholic Bible refers to a universal Bible that covers many religions.
It was produced after the Butlerian Jihad to be a basis for everyone to use. There are not "Orange Catholics" as far as I'm aware. Orange and catholic are just descriptions of this essentially encyclopedia of religious texts for people to form their new understanding with after learning to think for themselves once again.
Got it, thank you!
What a strong work of art Dune is, after all
The Bibble, page 241.