The Luddite movement wasn’t opposed to progress or technology. They were demanding protections from exploitation by the capital class: abolishment of child labour, fair wages, social protection from job loss, etc.

There was no labour law at the time. Destroying the machines was a way to gain leverage, nothing more.

Ultimately the capitalists won that conflict. Many Luddites were murdered or jailed. And the history that was written tried to tell us that the Luddites were backwards peasants who didn’t understand technology and progress.

Interesting — so in your opinion every country must build out datacenters or be left behind?

This is a lot of assertions with zero evidence.

* fantastic technology [citation needed]

* economic suicide [citation needed]

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?