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Dune, the story of a society who botched the AI alignment problem. Mostly because a dictator with too much power delegated it to a badly aligned AI. So, what lesson do they take from this? That having a god-emperor with too much power is a bad idea? Nah. That computers are a bad idea. Then they have to breed biological computers to do the job of a flight management system.

Then, despite having the ability to do that kind of bioengineering, they can't even crank out "spice" synthetically.



Post AGI sci Fi is more interesting if singularity is deliberately nerfed. Imagine 300 pages of "We optimizing. Dyson spheres. Hive mind"


Charles Stross' "Culture" series handles that well.


Did you mean Ian M Banks's "Culture" series...?


Oh, right. I was thinking of both Banks' Culture series and Stross' Accelerando.


I don't remember any of that in Dune. Is that extended universe or something?


Read the Butlerian Crusade


So it's extended universe.


It's alluded to in the original, to explain why they're doing navigation the hard way.


Right. But none of what was said earlier is in there.




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