Unfortunately I imagine your modern AI data centre has better security than a 19th century textile mill.
Unfortunately? Are we really at the point of supporting terrorism of the “correct” political persuasion?
Yes
Is it time for a Luddite Renaissance?
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#52What I find interesting is how the tone seems to have changed in swathes of tech industry. Until LLMs were a thing, techno-optimism and sola technologia fundamentalism seems to have been a more prominent fetish. When LLMs began having a practical and tangible effect, much of the same cohort seems to have pivoted toward aversion. If this is true—and this perception could be an artifact of selection bias driven by thos…
I would argue the decline of techno-optimism started long before LLMs became widespread. If you think back to the late 2010s, the first bricks were starting to fall already (Cambridge analytica, Google’s 2018 … thing). Crypto, NFTs, Web3, etc were held with general negative regard in the beginning of the 2020s, and the tech CEOs like Musk/Zuckerberg/Bezos had all accumulated negative image by then.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
No mention of a certain president and his cultists coup-ing the government to steal an election? Definitely sounded like terrorism at the time, with clear call to eliminating a vice president and other representatives
Sounds like a great reason to oppose violent rhetoric and action before it becomes normalized.
It has been normalized over the past 10y by the sitting president
Re: Is it time for a Luddite Renaissance?
#54Actual luddite: prevent capitalists from using technology to destroy society. Meme luddite: hate technology
They didn't prevent a damn thing though and neither will this new crop of people.