alt Hacker NewsWell, that depends. How much do you actually know about the Luddites, versus making assumptions vs their use as a pejorative in pop culture?
The more our definition of "Luddite" becomes historically accurage, the more it is true that yes, the HN audience is composed of people like that.
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HelloMcFly • today at 3:11 PM
Most uses of the word "Luddite" - and I'd venture to guess this one included - don't refer to the original aims of Luddites but the modern connotation of maximally pejorative "anti-technologists" in the broadest sense.
dgellow • today at 2:55 PM
My definition of Luddite doesn’t matter, the person I responded to clearly used it in a pejorative way to describe people who are resistant to new technologies (likely irrational)
> The more our definition of "Luddite" becomes historically accurage, the more it is true that yes, the HN audience is composed of people like that.
Ah yeah, the people of HN, well known for burning down datacenters.