The New Luddites Aren’t Backing Down
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.
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.
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”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.
I consider myself a Christian, not because I believe in god or Jesus, but because I think everyone should wear sandals
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."
Thats basically what a Protestant is. They gave themselves a diffrent label to distinguish themselves.