Butlerian Jihad
Endless Thread
WBUR
4.2 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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It's 2025. HBO's "Dune: Prophecy" is one of the most popular shows streaming, and the federal government just announced massive spending on artificial intelligence. The inspiration for "Dune: Prophecy" is in part a prophecy, of sorts, from 1872: One about humans becoming subservient to "thinking machines." What can a 150-year-old text teach us about the current AI revolution?
Credits: This episode was produced by Ben Brock Johnson and Grace Tatter. Mix and sound design by Emily Jankowski. It was hosted by Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson.
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| 0:59.9 | Amory, what level of Dooniverse are you at? |
| 1:04.6 | Like, do you use The Spice Must Flow in passing conversation? |
| 1:12.7 | You would know this, yes, because I say it to you every morning, the spice must flow. |
| 1:15.9 | Do you call your rabbit moadib? |
| 1:21.0 | Only when I'm feeling spicy. |
| 1:25.8 | Do you in quiet moments scream out? |
| 1:28.7 | For he is the quizant's had a rack. Do you in quiet moments scream out? For he is the Quizart's Hatterack. |
| 1:31.1 | Do you do that? |
| 1:35.5 | You know, it's funny about this. |
| 1:39.1 | I assume you're referring to Dune, the books, turned movies. |
| 1:43.0 | I watched the first Dune movie on an airplane. |
| 1:44.8 | The Timite one? The Timite one. Oh, man. On an airplane. The Timitay one? |
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