Butlerian jihad

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A war waged in the Duneverse by the last free humans against autonomous (“thinking”) machines; the Great Revolt.
    — “‘Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,’” Paul quoted. “Right out of the Butlerian Jihad and the Orange Catholic Bible,” she said. “But what the O.C. Bible should've said is: ‘Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.’
  2. A notional large-scale and vehement opposition to and suppression of artificial intelligence. broadly
    — Well, Daniel Kokotajlo, thank you so much. And I will see you on the front lines of the Butlerian Jihad soon enough.

词形变化

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词源

From Butlerian + jihad (“holy war, crusade”), from the science fiction epic Dune (1965). Butlerian refers to English novelist Samuel Butler, whose 1872 work Erewhon describes a society that destroys all complex machines preemptively out of fear of their replacement by those very machines.
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