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I broadly agree with your analysis, the luddite comparison is apt and I think you'll find that quite a few people on here do in fact understand they were anti exploitation, not anti tech. And yeah the root problem of all this can be boiled down to "capitalism requires profit at all costs" but I'm so frustrated with the absolutely correct answer being "because capitalism" but with no real actionable plan at the present moment to actually mitigate the harm beyond, "end capitalism and share resources fairly"

I don't think lemmy users are necessarily naive, I think that most of us are tired of everything collapsing around us and are looking for literally anything that can give us even some modicum of relief from the horrors.

I also don't hate AI because it's new technology, hell I found a lot of the early experiments by people online into neural networks and training them. I enjoyed the CaryKH and Jabrils and CodeBullet videos building small neural networks to race cars around a track or play flappy bird or get massive high scores in tetris and 3Blue1Brown and Numberphile and Computerphole videos breaking down how the math and computer science theory worked. I hate that it's only use has been to flood the internet with randomly generated garbage at best, and is now just a tool of mass misinformation on a scale unprecedented in a time of economic instability in a deeply divided world where there are dozens of countries with enough nuclear warheads to end the planet 30 times over.

Unfortunately we can't wait for that secret third thing to reveal itself. We can't sit around hoping that letting the capitalists run rampant will bring us that secret third thing before our air becomes unbreathable, our climate is inhospitable, and our lakes and rivers and aquifers are tainted with toxic chemicals and heavy metals.