洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) 
@hongminhee@hollo.social
It took time and experience before the workers learnt to distinguish between machinery and its employment by capital.
—Karl Marx
This verdict on the Luddites, written 150 years ago, maps onto the LLM debate with uncomfortable precision: Acting materialistically in an imperfect world: LLMs as means of production and social relations.