Not at all. Merely questioning exactly what makes TF's troll a "Luddite attack."
He's convincing people to hurt themselves with powerful technology as a way of arguing that people are too dumb to have that technology or the technology is bad because it enables people to hurt themselves. It's completely different from arguing that there should be better safeties or warnings.
For example, consider a hammer. A person can bash their thumb with a hammer. The Luddite argument is that because people can bash their thumb with a hammer, hammers are bad. Or, worse, convincing people to use hammers carelessly so you can show lots of pictures of black and blue thumbs to stop this scourge of evil hammers. It's not at all the same as arguing that because people can bash their thumbs with a hammer, people need to understand how to safely use hammers or that it might be worth investigating whether a hammer can be designed such that it's more difficult to hit your thumb.
I agree with Joel here , and lol at the input.io scam so I guess , he went "full retard" after all.
But unfortunately what I would explore Joel is the nature of the society in which we exist, unfortunately thats the one we have to work with, there is such a "normalization" of debt issuance ingrained in the human society , there is no way that these principles will function because the "person" will always trust.
Thats my bet.
