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I’m tired of the “they’re Luddites” middlebrow dismissal, ignoring all of the history and lessons of that time.

Yeah, Industrialization was a completely painless and smooth process. No one was ever inconvenienced. That’s why we can make fun of the then-naysayers now.

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That is fair. I mostly wanted to express that it’s not going to accomplish their goal. Image generators are here to stay no matter how hard and long you fight against them.

Of course technological progress is never a painless process, it’s in fact extremely violent and brutal. On the other hand, industrialisation made it possible to feed 10 billion humans and eradicated much of the everyday pain humans had to deal with since the Stone Age. This would not have been possible otherwise.

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> That is fair. I mostly wanted to express that it’s not going to accomplish their goal. Image generators are here to stay no matter how hard and long you fight against them.

What’s fair? You’re just repeating what you already said.

Image generators are here to stay? No kidding. Kind of like the machines of Industrial Revolution? Yeah, obviously. And people fought back when they in turn started to be treated like cogs in the Machine. And a lot of that worked. Even worked so successfully that we can dismiss those old fogies as backwards and simple. So privileged are we that we don’t have to know the history of what they did for us.

> Of course technological progress is never a painless process, it’s in fact extremely violent and brutal. On the other hand, industrialisation made it possible to feed 10 billion humans and eradicated much of the everyday pain humans had to deal with since the Stone Age. This would not have been possible otherwise.

What on the other hand? Why do you think we have the quality of life that we do? Because people sat on their hands and trusted the invisible hand of progress to sort things out for them? No, it is exactly because they fought back that things are working so well for us today.

But whatever. I’ve got my microwave oven and my fridge. Suck on that, stupid Luddites.