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[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 46 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Dune is like 10,000 years past the Butlerian Jihad which is supposed to be an existential war against AI and humans that leaves Earth unrecognizable. Even generously that's still not even close to this millenia

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sam Altman would beg to differ.

[–] chocrates@piefed.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Trying to speed run that apocalypse so he can beat climate change

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

Not to mention the race against the bursting bubble and the health of the enabler in chief.