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Seems like Elon is naming his kids after the AI thinking machines from Frank Herbert's Duniverse. In a generation or two after they've been grafted with AI implants, we'll be fighting the descendents of Elon in the Butlierian Jihad.


I think you mean the awful prequels written by his son? Frank was fairly silent on the fine details of the whole "we hate computers now" thing; it was at least strongly implied to have been a sort of moral panic, rather than literally evil AIs ruling the world, in the original books.




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