Q: Are you luddites?

A: That depends. If by "luddite" you mean "industry professional
   concerned about the direction of the industry", then yeah. If you
   mean the strawman definition of luddite - ie, "do you hate tech
   for the sake of hating tech" - we encourage you to re-evaluate
   your reasons for asking.

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Q: Do you hate capitalism?

A: We don't like growthism very much, at any rate. Mostly we like
   people and want them to have a nice future that doesn't involve
   them being exploited.

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Q: What about models trained on public-domain datasets? Or openly
   distributed models?

A: Our concerns with generative models are multi-dimensional - 
   social, economic, cultural, technical, environmental. Right now,
   we don't see conditions that would make generative models
   desirable. In general, we're in favor of smaller, more considered
   computing.

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Q: Are you a movement? Or an organization? Or what?

A: Not really any of the above. There's no Permacomputer HQ over
   here. We're just some people who talked about permacomputing
   stuff and got unsettled by the rush toward implementing AI
   systems.

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Q: What about new technology providing solutions to your concerns?

A: We take a very skeptical view of solutionism around here. The
   historical record of technological solutions reducing consumption
   and summoning utopian futures is uninspiring.