Next time your relatives die of curable diseases, think fondly of the luddites who seek to slow human progress.

I generally avoid these shoddy videos. Dramatic music, incredulity, ignorance, and bias runs rampant, unchecked by reason or fact. What can we expect from spinsters who would manipulate people leaning to the right wing in the American paradigm so that large interests can continue to rake in massive profits at the expense of the very people they claim to be looking out for? As far as I am concerned, these events will play themselves out regardless of any action or inaction that people take. There is more than enough evidence and lies out there on both sides to continue the phony culture war, or have legitimate discussions. When the body count starts rising we will see the truth of these matters. There is a third actor in this debate that everyone misses, and that is mother earth, and she will have the final say, and slay libertarians and eco-scientists alike regardless of the time line / influencing factors. I advise you to spend your time being happy, and fully utilizing the amenities / technologies that currently exist, because nothing good lasts forever.

Where do I stand? I believe that man could have something to do with climate change, but if he isn't, we still deserve the technology, industry, and legislation that comes along with potentially fighting the proposed primitive technology future advocated here. Clean, emission free vehicle, to me, stands for "I don't have to pay for fucking gasoline". Solar and wind power, mean to me, "I don't have to pay as much for my electricity and heating bill." Every shitty video, like this one, arguing against modernizing our technology to be more efficient, is a voice calling out to the other Luddites of the world, bitching for an end to innovation and advancement for our species. You are a cancer. You are a tumor. You are literally scum. You type to me on your computer, but by your logic, walking me a stone tablet you chiseled yourself would be preferable, because microchips are a government conspiracy.

I don't get all the xenophobic reactions and ludditism these kinds of robots seem to bring out. Same thing with the uncanny valley... Just don't get it, nothing uncanny or creepy about androids at all to me.

...if I only knew how. I'm not an internet Luddite, but goddammit how does one go about viewing a memeber's highest rated comments? I only spend time on here looking at my own comments and reliving the joy of typing them not a day ago.

Glad you like it. I'm hoping they go with my ideas. They're a little rough around the edges, but I think they really answer the questions effectively.

In reply to this comment by LarsaruS:
@blankfist You just won the internet. Best FAQ I've seen in a long while... No mercy for the Luddites...

@blankfist You just won the internet. Best FAQ I've seen in a long while... No mercy for the Luddites...

@SDGundamX

Doctors didn't say Hawkins would be dead 43 years ago. They said 'based on available data, your life expectancy exhibits the following probability curve (with the most likely outcome being that you'll be dead [43 years ago]).'

Science always wins in the sense that it always creates the future, the same as it created the modern world. If we think science and technology will never progress past the current cutting edge of organ regeneration and iPhones, we're the same as the luddites that have characterized every other era in the history of science.

>> ^LarsaruS:

I don't get the uncanny valley thing... there is nothing uncanny about it at all to me... are Westerners really that traumatized by the industrial revolution and the Luddites that all androids seem evil to us, or what?


Educate yourself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

It's got nothing to do with modernization or automation. It's all about making things that look "almost" human, but not human enough.

I don't get the uncanny valley thing... there is nothing uncanny about it at all to me... are Westerners really that traumatized by the industrial revolution and the Luddites that all androids seem evil to us, or what?

>> ^LarsaruS:

Aah, Luddites... where would we be without them?


Heh, he's not that much of a Luddite -- he knew that that mistaking the screen saver for a crash was pretty sad.

Aah, Luddites... where would we be without them?

>> ^rychan:
What a cynic. I didn't have a great schooling experience. I was often at odds with Luddite school administrators. I had my share of terrible teachers. But I don't see this as a conspiracy by the politically powerful to make us conformists. It's just laziness.


consent doesn't manufacture itself. smart people like me don't trust the government or the media, but is it really possible that the public would think they deserve this government? Deserve this crappy media? i wonder.

What a cynic. I didn't have a great schooling experience. I was often at odds with Luddite school administrators. I had my share of terrible teachers. But I don't see this as a conspiracy by the politically powerful to make us conformists. It's just laziness.

Here's a link to my new cell phone- bought last week... http://reviews.cnet.com/cell-phones/motorola-renew-w233-t/4505-6454_7-33485041.html.

Cheap-ass Motorola candy-bar phone, no camera, no smart features whatsoever.

It's hard to think of anyone who has a cell phone as a luddite, but there you go.

^ Maher's position is basically "vaccines don't work and are possibly deadly," which is just a false statement. A luddite is someone "who opposes the advance of technology due to the cultural and socioeconomic changes that are associated with it" (Wiki), rather than deny that it does what it's proven to do.