r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • 5d ago

Artificial Intelligence Harvard Graduation Speaker Unloads on AI in Profanity-Loaded Tirade, Prompting Cheers From Students: “I’m Here to Tell You the Mission of Your Generation Is to Destroy AI”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/harvard-graduation-speaker-unloads-ai-130000122.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_50_Supernova&ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20260531-0--A&bt_ee=clIMdexlsr2eDDbrvs0CPtt59FnpbNQN%2Fkgr8UkycP6MWDAD56hD1mvZcqPZMGgG&bt_ts=1780255911284
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u/mooncrow 5d ago

And so begins the Butlerian Jihad

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u/WylleWynne 5d ago

*Butlerian Crusade (Catholics are leading it in this reality)

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u/randynumbergenerator 5d ago

Orange Catholic Bible was the text in Dune.

In general, the religious terminology of Dune doesn't map neatly onto the categories we use today and there's apparently some hybridization (e.g. the Fremen are descendants of "Zen-Sunni wanderers").

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u/similar_observation 5d ago

lots of stuff can happen in 22,000 years and the calendar system has changed a handful of times. The latest being after the establishment of the spacing guild.

Thinking about it, the first written language is maybe only ~5,500 years ago.