BBC Radio 4 was just talking about the Luddites as a response to automation, and though they managed the social media of the day, and maintained their message f

BBC Radio 4 was just talking about the Luddites as a response to automation, and though they managed the social media of the day, and maintained their message far better than you'd expect, damaging only the machines that displaced the workers the most, and leaving others alone... in the end, the owners won. To me, the only sane way we can survive this, is to make it possible for anyone to own their own AI, to distribute the means of production widely. If everyone has labor saving technology, at least there's a bit of a balance against the power of the 0.001%. It's a dim hope, though. Given the state of computer insecurity, which has forced more and more of us into the walled gardens on the internet, I fear the same will be true of the use of AI, etc. Computers CAN be made secure, but most of us on HN don't seem to believe it, what hope is there of fixing it for the world at large? If we can't control our own machines before AGI, what hope is there after it? I've been pushing, in small but persistent amounts, this issue, but I feel pretty hopeless at times. We need capability based security at the foundation of things, in a profoundly desperate way. If general purpose computing is lost, all of the benefits of computing go to those who can afford to throw manpower at maintaining the status quo, while reaping all the benefits.