A joke post mistakes ‘Butlerian Jihad’ for a Judith Butler reference
CFGeek · x · 2026-07-27
A reply jokes that for years the author thought “Butlerian Jihad” was a Judith Butler reference.
- The thread is riffing on the idea that training powerful agentic AI systems may be immoral.
- The humor comes from the absurd misreading of a famous sci-fi term as a contemporary academic reference.
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