Dune quote on machine thinking resonates: 'thinking for yourself is maintenance'
churchkey · x · 2026-09-26
A viral-style post cites Frank Herbert's Dune — "Once men turned their thinking over to machines... that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them" — arguing it feels more relevant than ever in the AI era.
The author's takeaway: thinking for yourself is maintenance. Read slowly, argue with what you read even when you agree, and write things down in your own clumsy words before asking a machine to polish them. Keep the muscle.
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