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As companies destroy the world in pursuit of profits that will never come, I welcome our Butlerian Jihad (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by cannedtuna@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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For those unfamiliar the Dune series, the Butlerian Jihad was a crusade against “thinking machines”. Ultimately computers, and intelligent or thinking machines, even down to calculators are destroyed and banned. Humans who are trained in complex mental maths become known as Mentats, a sort of human computer. Just, uhh, leave all that shit on Bene Tleilax, with their Axalotl Tanks out of it.

Edit: had wrong planet name. IX -> Bene Tleilax

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 30 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I deduct that grok wasn't funny since the reply is not in the screenshot, too bad though.

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[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago (3 children)

*deduce, in case you're not a native English speaker. "Deduct" is like "subtract".

I can't think a response from Grok that would add to the tableau. Whether Grok gets the answer right or wrong, the joke is that someone follows a post decrying the surrender of thought to machines by immediately surrendering thought to a (racist) machine. It's complete.

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[–] huppakee@piefed.social 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

*deduce, in case you're not a native English speaker. "Deduct" is like "subtract".

Somehow deduce to me sounds like some rich French lady, but merci mon ami, that is the word i meant. And i do agree, the meme is not incomplete this way.

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[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 months ago

This French lady does her scrolling while droppin deduce

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[–] nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Like a "dilettante" or "debutante" or "demoiselle"?

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[–] joenforcer@midwest.social 8 points 7 months ago

On Xitter, replies get threaded. If you were to click into that comment to see grok's reply, that then makes the comment the parent, which would then omit the original post from view.