On the one hand, “Yuddite” is (kinda rude but) really rather clever.
On the other hand, the actual Luddites were concerned about technological unemployment which makes “Yuddite” a potentially misleading term, given that there’s something of a rift between the “concerned about ways in which AI might lead to people’s lives being worse within a world that’s basically like the one we have now” and “concerned about the possibility that AI will turn the world so completely upside down that there’s no room for us in it any more” camps and Yudkowsky is very firmly in the latter camp.
On the third hand, the Luddites made a prediction about a bad (for them) outcome, and were absolutely correct. They were against automatic looms because they thought the autolooms would replace their artisan product with lower quality goods and also worsen their wages and working conditions. They were right: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/
On the one hand, “Yuddite” is (kinda rude but) really rather clever.
On the other hand, the actual Luddites were concerned about technological unemployment which makes “Yuddite” a potentially misleading term, given that there’s something of a rift between the “concerned about ways in which AI might lead to people’s lives being worse within a world that’s basically like the one we have now” and “concerned about the possibility that AI will turn the world so completely upside down that there’s no room for us in it any more” camps and Yudkowsky is very firmly in the latter camp.
On the third hand, the Luddites made a prediction about a bad (for them) outcome, and were absolutely correct. They were against automatic looms because they thought the autolooms would replace their artisan product with lower quality goods and also worsen their wages and working conditions. They were right: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/