From Wikipedia:

"Luddites feared that the time spent learning the skills of their craft would go to waste, as machines would replace their role in the industry. Many Luddites were owners of workshops that had closed because factories could sell similar products for less. But when workshop owners set out to find a job at a factory, it was very hard to find one because producing things in factories required fewer workers than producing those same things in a workshop. This left many people unemployed and angry."

They weren't trying to create economic reform or socialized control of industry. They were attaching the competition because people sewing by hand obviously can't compete with machines. They were shortsighted, just like the people now are shortsighted.

Maybe you should consider how industrial textile mills ended clothing scarcity by making clothing incredibly cheap. If the Luddites had it their way, poor people would be walking around in barrels.

Maybe you should consider all the lives that will be saved by AI-based medical innovations. And that's just the beginning.

Technology is a tool. If you are forward-thinking, you will focus on making sure that tool is in the hands of many, not the few. But pretending that you can stop technological progress is absurd.

No, they weren't. The Luddites weren't trying to socialize the means of production or fight for union rights. They were destroying machines because they were too small-minded to think of anything else. And if they had their way, we never would have seen all the benefits industrialization brought.

Oppose unjust economic systems, but technology is just a tool. Gooder tools are more gooder.

Big Brother AI

If you don't want to make your own content, you can watch AI-created content made by other people and posted online, most of which will be free.

You can't compete with free.

When the choice is between spending $500 million to produce a movie with real people and $0 to produce an identical movie with AI, it won't be a hard decision.

Yuval Noah Harari's name should not be listed among people who are legitimate scientists.

His inclusion is embarrassing and very telling.

You're not thinking big enough. Publicly-available AI isn't great at long-form content right now, but in a few years, AI will be able to generate a Hollywood-level blockbuster that on its own from a text prompt.

You'll be able to say: "Make me a blockbuster of Marvel vs. DC" and you'll be able to watch a movie generated in real time that is indistinguishable from live-action.

The same will be true for video games and VR experiences. The entire entertainment industry will be replaced.

AI image/video generation and chatbots will replace human sex workers online. IRL sex work will take longer to replace, but if you're only interacting with someone through a screen anyway, it will be easy for AI to replace them.

I don't think enough people have considered how much AI-generated porn is going to change things, and probably not for the better.

Starfleet officer.