butlerian jihad
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A war waged in the Duneverse by the last free humans against autonomous (“thinking”) machines; the Great Revolt.
noun
A notional large-scale and vehement opposition to and suppression of artificial intelligence.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Butlerian jihad
Example Sentences
- "“‘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.’"
- "At the time of the Butlerian Jihad, Omnius and his thinking machines had held all of the “Synchronized Worlds” in an iron grip for a thousand years."
- "Dune holds up today, says writer Alastair Reynolds, when many science fiction novels of its era don’t, in part because [Frank] Herbert future-proofed it, by setting his story 20,000-odd years ahead, after the “Butlerian Jihad” has replaced intelligent machines with human minds."
- "Well, Daniel Kokotajlo, thank you so much. And I will see you on the front lines of the Butlerian Jihad soon enough."