Megan McArdle, comrades!
I just can't even believe how stupid this one is. It's not that I'm an AI booster (indeed, i'm rather pessimistic), but real shit, Dune is your model for a future humanity?
Brava Megan, Brava.
https://archive.is/FwQ5r no paywall, thanks @awoo
:posad
it "worked" in a work of fiction, great, superb argument
Libs every time they cite 1984 or Animal Farm like it's gospel.
YOu gotta hand it to him; Orwell did a bang up job imagining the future of Britain. He was only wrong about a few, inconsequential, details.