I test drove the first-generation Tesla Roadster. I once lived on Soylent powder shakes for a month. My Twitter account is almost old enough to drive. I wrote a book about the iPhone.
Also, I’m a Luddite. That’s not the contradiction that it might sound like. The original Luddites did not hate technology. Most were skilled machine operators. In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, what they objected to were the specific ways that tech was being used to undermine their status, upend their communities and destroy their livelihoods. So they took sledgehammers to the mechanized looms used to exploit them.
Luddites weren’t stupid for the problems they noticed. They were stupid for not taking the fight directly to those in power. Fighting for a better status quo should never have to involve directly attacking a company. In fact, change can happen withoit targeting any specific company. Leave that to specific workers and unions.
The solution is to empower them so it’s not the worker themselves who has to bust kneecaps just to get paid… Destroying specific companies does less than nothing. It paints workers as unjustly entitled and uppity, just like when protests turn in to riots
Does a riot mean the protest stood for nothing? No! Does the riot make many people assume the protest stood for nothing? Yes. Pick your targets wisely. More wisely than Luddites of the past.
Zeth0s@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I work in ML and AI and I strongly believe that reduced hour, wfh and universal basic income are needed. All new technologies can help us living a better life, it doesn’t make sense using them to build a worst society
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
It does if all you care about is short-term profit. Gotta make them stockholders happy before they bail.
Kasumi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Zeth0s@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s like saying that someone who built the steam engine actively killed people. The steam engine was a great thing. Politics must deal with social changes. Because we know that any technological advance can result in social instability if left in the hand of wrong people.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Huh. Sounds like a good argument for a UBI.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
If your first reaction to criticism is to discount it as artificial I would suggest taking stock of yourself and how you engage in discussions.
AI/ML is an extremely broad field, while some assholes do have terrible motives most of the work is tool building. We build tools to help do things that are monotonous or difficult for humans to do so people can focus on more creative work… while acknowledging that the field carries some extreme dangers if misused. AI alone isn’t the problem, the concentration of wealth is devastating to society and we need to fix that before AI makes it worse - but AI itself is a tool for good.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 1 year ago
You’re surprised keep the status quo is a controversial opinion in a work reform subreddit?
Where in a non-AI world do you imagine workers as gaining the things you say they can’t post?