Wrong Again, Douthat

The Butlerian Jihad, as everyone knows, is directed against "thinking machines" -- i.e., artificial intelligence -- not radical life-extending technologies. Indeed, the precious melange spice found only on Arakis is a radical life-extending technology and obviously the Jihad doesn't have a problem with that.

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