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By "Luddite," you mean "resist progress, therefore bad." Progress is not inherently bad. Luddites didn't say it is; this blog post doesn't say it is either. We are currently rushing forward with implementing AI everywhere, as much as possible, and what these posts (thinking about Xe Iaso) urge you to think about is how this new revolutionary technology affects us, society, the people who will be displaced by it. If it will yield a disproportionate amount of misery, then we should oppose it on the moral grounds. There's no guarantee of ASI heaven or hell, so it's merely prudent to think about the repercussions. We didn't think - damn, we couldn't even approach imagining - all of the repercussions of replacing traditional agriculture with industrial agriculture, of the industrial revolution, of the internet, so maybe, with technology this powerful, it would be sensible to think about the repercussions before we upend the social order once again.