The Timeline of Dune (Part 1)
Gom Jabbar: A Dune Podcast
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The Ethics of Killing Artificial Intelligence
The Butlerian Jihad is described as a bloody conflict that just spreads across the galaxy. It's not described in a, it's like the imagery that I'm getting is not people smashing their Mac books. So, this is like a mass genocide of effectively conscious beings. These are artificial intelligence, but they're conscious thinking beings who are self-actualized.
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