19th Century Luddites and the AI Revolution

While you're worried about AI writing your emails, Silicon Valley is speedrunning humanity's last chapter - and the ending isn't looking great for team homo sapiens.

In the grand panorama of humanity's terminal stupidity, there's something exquisitely, perfectly deranged about our current moment - a chef's kiss of civilizational self-own that makes Hegel's entire conceptual framework of historical dialectics look like a Fisher-Price 'My Little Pony' playset.

Here we are, witnessing the precise juncture where the Luddites - the primitive technophobes of your sophomore year Marxist theory seminar - are being vindicated. You see, the Luddites weren't some band of prehistorical