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Google may be the first to release a system like this but it won't take long until there are equivalent services, which may not warn that it is an AI. How long until those fun calls to automated systems start with a captcha?

sidenote: how long until the Butlerian Jihad?




> how long until the Butlerian Jihad?

It already started for some people. I personally know people that have made fighting against technocracy their long-term goal. Technology has been such a destructive force in their lives and is a continually growing threat. When you have to worry all the time about the new Sword of Damocles that Silicon Valley hangs over your head every month, thoughts of Butlerian Jihad style active violence against technocracy become inevitable.

In case anybody wants to dismiss this as merely an outlying opinion, consider the poem "There's No Reception in Possum Springs" from the game Night In the Woods:

    ... (see [1] for the rest) ...

    Replace my job with an app
    Replace my dreams of a house and a yard
    With a couch in the basement

    "The future is yours!"
    Forced 24-7 entrepreneurs
    I just want a paycheck and my own life

    I'm on the couch in the basement
    They're in the house and the yard
    Some night I will catch a bus out to the west coast

    And burn their silicon city to the ground
[1] http://nightinthewoods.wikia.com/wiki/Selmers#Possum_Springs...


It's a little bit surprising that the people in the Dune setting even bothered _trying_ this. By the time of Dune they're constantly nibbling at the edges of the resulting limitations. Sure enough, the humans who disobey the Orange Catholic Bible and make thinking machines end up crushing their opponents.




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