Something snapped into place in my mind. There is an anti-AI position that has absolutely nothing to do with luddism, or any other anti-tech position.
AI is cognitive suburbanization.
Think about it. Architecting everything so that I can't do even the most basic thing without gratuitously using a big, bloated, planet-destroying energy hog- one that *in theory* saves time, but actually just wastes it. Reducing all my options to the same generic, regurgitated, cookie cutter slop.
@emc2 The luddites were proto socialists, not opposed to technology per se (mechanized weaving looms), but insisting the profits be shared with the displaced workers. They were ferociously repressed by the British establishment, with more soldiers quelling them than were fighting Napoleon, and sabotaging looms was made a capital offense, people were hanged for it.
It's a measure of how big a threat they were perceived to be, and how effective the counter propaganda was, that you use the term as a pejorative.
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