The New Luddites Aren’t Backing Down::Activists are organizing to combat generative AI and other technologies—and reclaiming a misunderstood label in the process.

  • veee@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    ”Tech is not supposed to be a master tool to colonize every aspect of our being. We need to reevaluate how it serves us.”

    I consider myself a Luddite not because I want to halt progress or reject technology itself. But I believe, as the original Luddites argued in a particularly influential letter threatening the industrialists, that we must consider whether a technology is “hurtful to commonality”—whether it causes many to suffer for the benefit of a few—and oppose it when necessary.

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        9 months ago

        Would be a bit more like “i consider myself a Christian, not because i follow the mainstream conception of Christianity but because i read what Jesus himself said and agree with it.”

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          9 months ago

          Thats basically what a Protestant is. They gave themselves a diffrent label to distinguish themselves.