Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was always about worker’s rights anyways:

  Malcolm L. Thomas argued in his 1970 history The Luddites that machine-breaking was one of the very few tactics that workers could use to increase pressure on employers, undermine lower-paid competing workers, and create solidarity among workers. “These attacks on machines did not imply any necessary hostility to machinery as such; machinery was just a conveniently exposed target against which an attack could be made.”[10] Historian Eric Hobsbawm has called their machine wrecking “collective bargaining by riot”, which had been a tactic used in Britain since the Restoration because manufactories were scattered throughout the country, and that made it impractical to hold large-scale strikes.[13][14] An agricultural variant of Luddism occurred during the widespread Swing Riots of 1830 in southern and eastern England, centring on breaking threshing machines.[15]

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

  It was about making sure that as mechanization resulted in a lower need for labor, that workers compensation remained steady, and they worked less hours.

  People hating luddites is just the result of centuries old propaganda from the wealthy

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• gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There literally is. It’s a mentality that prevents vaccine adoption rates and such. That said, being slow to adopt a technology like Boomers to the Internet is okay. Not adopting a technology because it has no inherent value and is being foisted on us by the ruling class is solid bro behavior.

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  • sulfidedisburseangledafternoontipper@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tell me you don't know who the Luddites were without telling me you don't know who the Luddites were.

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    • gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh I didn’t realize that everyone uses the term literally. I thought it had expanded to mean a general lack of adoption of change. My bad I guess.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The luddites were skilled labor rioting against capital using machines to replace them with unskilled low wage labor

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• etherphon@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When the technology really gets beyond human comprehension and people are just guessing and throwing shit at the wall (or billions and billions of dollars), I think it's a sensible position to be a luddite.

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