Techno Calvinists vs Luddite Reformists is a very funny image.

Agree - although it's an interesting view, I think it's far more related to a lack of idealogy and writing where this has emerged from. I find it more akin to a distorted renaissance. There's such a large population of really intelligent tech people that have zero real care for philisophical or religious thought, but still want to create and make new things.

This leads them down the first path of grafting for more and more money. Soon, a good proportion of them realise the futility of chasing cash beyond a certain extent. The problem is this belief that they are beyond these issues that have been dealt with since Mesopotamia.

Which leads to these weird distorted idealogies, creating art from regurgitated art, creating apps that are made to become worse over time. There's a kind of rush to wealth, ignoring the joy of making things to further humanity.

I think LLMs and AI is a genie out of a bottle, it's inevitable, but it's more like linear perpsective in drawing or the printing press rather than electricity. Except because of the current culture we live in, it's as if leonardo spent his life attempting to sell different variations of linear perspective tutorial rather than creating, drawing and making.

in Adam Curtis‘s all watched over by machines of loving Grace, he makes a pretty long and complete argument that humanity has a rich history of turning over its decision-making to inanimate objects in a desire to discover ideologies we can’t form ourselves in growing complexity of our interconnectivity.

He tells a history of them constantly failing because the core ideology of “cybernetics” is underlying them all and fails to be adaptive enough to match our DNA/Body/mind combined cognitive system. Especially when scaled to large groups.

He makes the second point that humanity and many thinkers constantly also resort to the false notion of “naturalism” as the ideal state of humanity, when in reality there is no natural state of anything, except maybe complexity and chaos.