@murdoc @cmccullough The anti-Luddite rhetoric managed to change the definition from "labour activist" to "anti-technology," which neatly equates technology with capitalist labour extraction.

@cmccullough You're not a luddite if you don't like a technology that's not fit for purpose. That's just being sensible.

@cmccullough Short version: the Luddites were labour activists who spent TEN YEARS trying to get justice, and when they couldn't, they started busting the machines that were ruining their lives. They were BAD. ASS.

Skim:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

Deep dive:

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/understanding-the-luddites-in-the

#luddites #AI

@OrionKidder @cmccullough
Exactly. It's not the tech that's the issue, it's how it's being used.

@murdoc @cmccullough I very belatedly realized that without using the word "Luddite," I've been attacked with this rhetoric a few times. I heard someone say, "not believing in AI is like saying you don't believe in science" after I'd explained in detail the specific reasons I object to "AI."

@OrionKidder @cmccullough
It's an ancient political strategy, demonization. Take a group you don't like, then make up something people won't like, give the name of the first group to the second, and then people will mistakenly think that anyone in the first group is really in the second. It's happened so many times before, like hackers, witches, pagans, rednecks, communists, etc. All hated groups unless you look at what they were/are really about.