Brey every time they say "what are we gonna do, put the machines back in the toothpaste tube?" My brain is like "Butlerian Jihad, now."
@AnarchoNinaWrites
What amuses me about the toothpaste tube analogy is it implies that the tech bros have done something novel. Predictive algorithms date back to the beginning of computing. All they did is feed those algorithms all the content they could steal, crank up the power to a level so inefficient the guys rolling coal through town in their jacked up trucks are getting jealous; then turn the marketing machine up to 11.
No toothpaste, no tube, just a badly designed machine that we can shut off.
@AnarchoNinaWrites My brain is always like, "Why the hell not? Somebody put the paste in the tube in the first place."
Like, when these muppets call you a Luddite just remember - the Luddites were right. The industrial revolution WAS a gigantic class war slavery machine and we'd have all been better off if we joined the weavers and Nans in destroying the looms.
@AnarchoNinaWrites 'The progress was worth all the crushed children who found themselves unwillingly shoved I to the workforce to replaces skilled craftsmen because the machines couldn't do every job! Think of how much richer the people who were already rich enough to build factories became!'
@Rycochet I mean the "progress" in question was literally "getting better at extracting wealth from a subjugated labor class." The Luddites weren't against what you or I would define as "progress." Just what capitalists do.
@AnarchoNinaWrites They were against exploitation, ultimately,, and that gets ignored entirely by the culture because history is written by the victors. Fortunately as more and more people find themselves staring at the child crushing engines of the present day, they're beginning to actually look back at the luddites and realise they have a point...
Naturally the AI bros are horrified by this as their favourite insult is losing it's sting, and are pushing the only way they can, writing long, angry substacks about how the luddites were bad actually, exploitation of workers and children downplayed or ignored entirely.
https://www.verysane.ai/p/against-the-luddites?triedRedirect=true
@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse I don't know. Not to argue that capitalism is good, but all of this bullshit is most definitely not the fault of technology or progress.
@star Fuck off.
Thanks and good day.
@AnarchoNinaWrites @star I prefer not dying of typhus and cholera plus the option of (state funded) HRT
Sometimes I almost feel sorry I can’t trace back to the origin of your comment.
@AnarchoNinaWrites yeah, somebody called me a Luddite awhile back and was shocked when I said, “yes, and proudly so!” I then had the opportunity to explain what the Luddites were AND why they were fighting the industrialists et. al. I also told him to go and look up the Peterloo massacre.
@AnarchoNinaWrites Favorite recent thing I learned:
"Sabot" is the French word for a wooden clog/overshoe.
"Sabotage" is when you throw your sabot into the industrial loom, destroying it.
