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Your comments read as unhinged. Do you actually believe that HN audience of all places is composed of Luddite? People who are working in the tech industry but are somehow anti future because they are concerned by the ever growing energy demand from AI? How much are you ok to sacrifice to the LLM gods before you would start to question the technology?

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Well, that depends. How much do you actually know about the Luddites, versus making assumptions vs their use as a pejorative in pop culture?

The more our definition of "Luddite" becomes historically accurage, the more it is true that yes, the HN audience is composed of people like that.

My definition of Luddite doesn’t matter, the person I responded to clearly used it in a pejorative way to describe people who are resistant to new technologies (likely irrational)

> The more our definition of "Luddite" becomes historically accurage, the more it is true that yes, the HN audience is composed of people like that.

Ah yeah, the people of HN, well known for burning down datacenters.

Most uses of the word "Luddite" - and I'd venture to guess this one included - don't refer to the original aims of Luddites but the modern connotation of maximally pejorative "anti-technologists" in the broadest sense.

> Do you actually believe that HN audience of all places is composed of Luddite?

The core tenet of totalitarianism is pretending any opposing view is terrorism. You are either supporters of the system, or dangerous anti-social criminals who must be eradicated.

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