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Well, I mean, what it says to me is that this discontent, these grievances that people have are real, they are pronounced, and we have to look at them as if, you know, some of these people are obviously on the extreme end of whether it's a political spectrum or an ideology.
At least one of these shooters was
You know, one of these X-risk AI safety advocates who's really worried that AI is going to rise up and become sentient and end humanity.
And so if you believe that, then, you know, doing all you can, you know, may look like a rational outcome as abhorrent as it looks to everybody else.
And to step back a second, we do have a long history, right, when there is a disruptive technology, number one.
Number two, that is being developed and sort of unleashed by a particular sort of group of interests, right, when you have in the Luddites' time, that was the factory owners who were
spearheading factorization and automation.
They were doing it without community input, without asking what workers and communities, what they wanted.
We have a dynamic that looks an awful lot like what's happening here today, where you have a few industrialists who had the backing of the state, they had all the resources, they had all the capital, they had all the power,
And they were saying, this is the way it's going to be.
We're going to automate jobs this way.
And you're either going to sort of work in our factory or you're going to get out of the way.
And the Luddites, who actually registered, this is one of the things that people get wrong about the Luddites today, is they weren't dummies.
They weren't backwards looking.
They understood quite well what was happening.
They were technologists.
They used this stuff every day.
They used the automated technology.
technologies in smaller iterations in their workshops and at home.
And so they understood what the industrialists were trying to do, and that's what motivated their response.