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by danaris
24 days ago
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And what, exactly, does "fighting back" look like in this case? Because people are already taking steps to try to poison the AI training data. They're trying to create their own art and culture in spite of the machine. They're protesting the political forces that are enabling the techbros. They're unionizing in numbers not seen in decades. What would actually count as "brave" to you, if this isn't it? |
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My reply was aimed at this board.[1] The people who are unhappy about it but “can’t” to anything about it because there are no Sprint points to be awarded for “smashing the machines.” So they resign themselves to technological determinism. Nothing can stand in the way of Progress.
But really this is a subversion or reversal of the stupid, idiotic, decades-old meme of the Luddite-as-insult. It takes no courage, or even thought (see my original reply), to chant that Progress is More Good when that Progress is being lead by the most powerful Capital forces and their collaborators. So that’s why I dismissively replied that I haven’t seen anyone, HERE, that deserves such an honor as to be called a Neo Luddite.
And is it really material if I have in actuality seen one, or two, or five, on Here that deserve this name, when the point is so rhetorical?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48119414