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When I talk about my opposite and naked hostility toward AI, people will point to emergent technology in the past that disrupted. But the thing is were I there at the time, I would have been an opponent of that too. This does not mean I am anti-technology, or didn't want the tech to develop. 🧵

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Luddites are pro worker, pro union, pro labor, pro little people standing together to make a huge terrifying fist aimed at the rich assholes trying to exploit everyone. Luddites fought for you and me before we were even born.

Under capitalism, everything that should liberate us is used to exploit or replace us. For as long as we live under a system that forces us to labor in exchange for our survival, we should do everything we can to slow the automation of that labor until our survival is guaranteed by other means.