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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
So is he just joking, or very stupid?
It reads like a joke to me, and his published works suggest he's not one to meekly take things at face value: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&citation_for_view=EEdRH98AAAAJ%3A0EnyYjriUFMC
methinks folk are missing that he's tweeting at grok, asking it to disseminate the quote....
I totally missed that, thank you. Changes everything.
I read it as a joke, and a good one, in my opinion. He's asking a supposedly thinking machine to explain a passage about thinking machines being used to enslave people.
For once I'd like to see grok's response. But not enough to actually go on there...
Yup, I see that now. Lol most of us completely missed it