> I’m going to make a prediction of my own… In the future we will see more and more companies proudly boasting their “NO-AI” policy as a competitive advantage. And they will be right
I'm going to make my own prediction: this isn't going to happen
"We're not going to use tractors to plow the fields"
"We're not going to use trucks to deliver our produce"
"We're not going to use planes to meet with our global partners"
"We're not going to use computers to run our business"
"We're not going to open a web shop, brick and mortar forever"
"We're not going to use AI to make decisions for us"
>Luddites have existed since the dawn of times:
Pet peeve - luddites had never been against technology. They had been against using low paid inexperienced grunt workers to displace well paid experts.
As the Industrial Revolution began, workers naturally worried about being displaced by increasingly efficient machines. But the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” says Kevin Binfield, editor of the 2004 collection Writings of the Luddites. They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices. “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,” says Binfield, “and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages. Those were their only concerns.”
The definition you're using is not the definition that people nowadays understand the word for.
You don't go to a magazine website for the current common meaning or understanding of a word, you go to the dictionary And in a dictionary you'll read that a luddite is someone who is opposed to new technology, automation, or industrial change.
There are countless examples where people resist new technology for various reasons other than "using low paid inexperienced grunt workers to displace well paid experts". And this is what we call luddites, not the historical original definition of the word.
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I'm going to make my own prediction: this isn't going to happen
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Pet peeve - luddites had never been against technology. They had been against using low paid inexperienced grunt workers to displace well paid experts.
See: <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/" rel="nofollow">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-rea...
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You don't go to a magazine website for the current common meaning or understanding of a word, you go to the dictionary And in a dictionary you'll read that a luddite is someone who is opposed to new technology, automation, or industrial change.
There are countless examples where people resist new technology for various reasons other than "using low paid inexperienced grunt workers to displace well paid experts". And this is what we call luddites, not the historical original definition of the word.
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