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You should read up on thr Luddites, because you're mischaracterising them. They weren't anti technology, they were anti capitalist.
IMO, this is the think Linus is missing - the shit has massive political implications in multiple dimensions (it's being built by fascists and capitalists bent on control of broader business, government, and social systems) and he's just treating it as if it's as politically agnostic as a screwdriver.
I am familiar with their actual history, but the colloquialism has taken on its own life just as the term "nimrod" no longer describes the famous hunter of that name but rather a bumbling buffoon.
As regards the politics of it, we can split these hairs all day. Where do we draw the line between a tool and a weapon? Which tools are acceptable to use and in what ways?
That AI is being used as a political bludgeon is not the fault of AI any more than gunshot wounds are the direct fault of the gun; they are tools being used for particular aims. I consider both equally dangerous in the right (wrong) hands, but by that same token a gun can be used to feed a family when used for hunting just as AI has provided monetary benefits to regular working people.
A tool cannot in and of itself be political. Its use and application absolutely can.
ETA: Upon re-reading I see that my "nimrod" comparison can read as an insult. I meant it more in how Bugs Bunny altered the colloquial meaning. I was not trying to be disparaging in any way and apologize if I offended.
There is no such thing as, "just a tool", just as there is no topic that cannot be made political.
Stop being a willfully ignorant fuckface.
Sure thing, spanky..
I disagree, and I'm not alone: https://gomakethings.com/articles/all-tech-is-political/
I wouldn't dare do the disservice of judging the article (in full) purely on title, but "technology" includes the hammer, the wheel, and all the way around to sticks and fire.
Again, I am willing to debate the ethics of use of any given technology all day as that is absolutely a conversation worth having, especially with some technologies like spy satellites and permanently-connected IOT devices alongside LLMs.
But technology itself isn't inherently political.
Now I'm clicking the link.
Edit: Upon reading, I fully take their point, but my own lens of it is more that everything is within the realm of politics rather than innately political itself. Tractors aren't inherently political, but John Deere managed to make them so. Actors using, to my earlier point, any technology as a lever for politics doesn't inherently make that technology political.
I appreciate that viewpoint immensely however, even though I don't fully align with it myself.
Obviously there is a spectrum between sewing needles and nuclear weapons.. But I think it's clear that even e.g. stone axes have had meaningful impacts on the structure of society and also on politics as a subset of that (e.g. their use had implications for power relationships, perhaps as a weapon, perhaps as a way to increase socioeconomic status, etc.)
Which makes it about as politically agnostic as a computer. Technology doesn't have morality.
I don't know automated turrets that target children in Gaza sounds pretty immoral. I could say the baby skull seeking bullets them selves aren't nessisarly immoral but its the use of said bullets that makes them evil, but I don't see the need to make a distinction.
Algorithms that face book used for no reason other than to make you feel depressed to sell more ads feels pretty immoral too. Systems and tools developed to perpetuate slavery, is another one.
There's so much technology that was explicitly made for evil intent that serves no purpose outside of its original intent, where I feel I can blanketly call it immoral.
Technology use does though, and technology without use is.. Nothing?
But products have, and in our society, can we separate technology from products?