There's also a company called Selfrag (selective fragmentation) which uses electrical current to break the conglomerate slag along mineral fault lines to be able to more easily extract the metals..
He has a very interesting definition of "god" as a coherent multi-agent but at that level of generality any multicellular organism also qualifies as a god. Does he clarify during the interview what is the difference between abstract gods and concrete ones like multicellular organisms?
My heart still belongs to Ultima V though! Meditating at the Shrines, developing virtue, learning how to talk to people ("NAME", "JOB"), truly formative experience for me.
Got lost without the current day walkthroughs but it was about playing, not winning...
Actually, computers were banned because humans were enslaved to thinking machines for several millennia.
The butlerian jihad is when mankind rose up and physically destroyed every "thinking machine". Then they developed mentat schools to make human calculators / logicians.
> Actually, computers were banned because humans were enslaved to thinking machines for several millennia.
Only if you accept Brian Herbert's additions to the canon. Assuming that, like all right-thinking people, you treat those as apocryphal, it's left _very_ vague as it exactly what it was all about, and it's at least implied that it was not particularly rational.
You can find people today who'll tell you that humans are enslaved by computers because, I dunno, we use TikTok too much or something.
I am tempted to call it equivalent.