Gregory's Server
> Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
> The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines ... Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments.
It’s funny, both Tolkien and Herbert had strong Ludditism in their stories, and many AI nerds are likely fans.
@johntimaeus @ct_bergstrom @maegul see also the unveiling of the Torment Nexus, inspired by classic sci fi novel “don’t invent the torment nexus”