Yes, that wasn’t a random example for anyone OOTL. The thing the OG Luddites would do is break into factories and smash mechanical looms. They wanted to keep doing it the medieval way where you’re just crossing threads by hand over and over again, because “muh jerbs”.
Comment on 'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement
Kedly@lemm.ee 6 months agoWhich is why the term Luddite has never been more accurate than since it first started getting associated with being behind on technological progress
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
uis@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Luddites aren’t against technological progress, they are against social regress.
Kedly@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Pretty sure social norms are better now than they were back when Luddites got their name associated with being against technological progress
uis@lemm.ee 6 months ago
True.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
I have never, ever heard this definition of Luddite.