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I didn't recognize that expression, so to save other's the search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)#The_Butlerian...

> As explained in Dune, the Butlerian Jihad is a conflict taking place over 11,000 years in the future[7] (and over 10,000 years before the events of Dune), which results in the total destruction of virtually all forms of "computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots".

and thus if you use "luddites" to describe people who push back against LLMs being the second coming, and further suggest that those folks want all computers thrown in the trash, then you are deeply unserious and I have fed the troll



And Herbert is himself alluding to Samuel Butler, author of the anti-technological utopian novel Erewhon:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon>

Full text: <https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/samuel-butler/erewhon>


It's such a wild clash of (sci-)fi dis-/utopias. It's almost dialectic.




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