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weaksaucetoday at 3:34 AM2 repliesview on HN

i don't find the luddite comparison accurate. they were against looms and anti-ai people or ai skeptical people are against the wholesale strip mining of intellectual property as it exists... both public domain and non-public domain. it's used to enrich the capital class at the expense of the workers. sure it's similar but it certainly didn't have the copyright and wholesale theft of all of the human ideas behind it. it just feels quite different.


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gzreadtoday at 8:57 AM

they were not against the loom itself, but the resulting widescale changes for the worse in the way society was organized

y0eswddltoday at 3:41 AM

c'mon, were they really just against the looms...?