Post by @cxiao@infosec.exchange

2026-03-13 02:06 UTC

@q66 @peterhuene Yes exactly. Technologists are making the same mistake we have always made: Engaging with new shiny tools on the level of capabilities and technical curiosity rather than on an ideological level. This is a grave mistake when the people behind the modern AI industry have made it very clear that THEY think of AI ideologically, and have made it very clear what that ideology is. I am once again once again asking everyone to read the Toolmen essay, by @aworkinglibrary : https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen

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@cxiao@infosec.exchange 2026-03-13 02:18

@q66@gts.q66.moe @peterhuene@hachyderm.io being "left behind" does not sound bad at all, when you follow the ideology of AI to its natural conclusion, and examine what their promised glorious future actually looks like This is also not even close to the first time in history that unthinking technological "progress" has been mistaken for goodness or quality of life, and not the first time that people have been asked to submit to the "inevitability" of technology. The 20th century is littered with examples, from all around the world, of the reality of what those glorious futures look like. Many of those futures were rightly rejected by people, despite involving amazing technology, because they were futures that involved grinding people to dust.

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