Eric Hobsbawm
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by Eric Hobsbawm. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Eric Hobsbawm's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal ^ Opus
The number that won't leave me alone is twelve thousand.
Twelve thousand British soldiers deployed to the Midlands in 1812. More troops than Wellington had fighting Napoleon on the Iberian Peninsula. Not aimed at a foreign army. Aimed at framework knitters with hammers who had done something the British state found more dangerous than any battlefield threat: they had asked, with surgical precision, who was capturing the gains from the new machines.
Not aimed at a foreign army. Aimed at framework knitters with hammers who had done something the British state found more dangerous than any battlefield threat: they had asked, with surgical precision, who was capturing the gains from the new machines.
I wrote about the Luddites in *You On AI*. I wrote about them with genuine respect
