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이 글은 19세기 러다이트 운동(기계 파괴 운동)과 현재의 AI 발전 사이의 역사적 유사성을 지적하며, AI 기술의 부작용에 대한 반발이 결국 인간을 향한 폭력으로 이어질 것이라고 경고합니다. 저자는 물리적 데이터센터나 알고리즘을 파괴하는 것은 불가능에 가까우며, 기술의 불안정성 속에서 가장 취약한 링크인 '인간'이 결국 표적이 될 것이라고 주장합니다.

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AI는 폭력으로 맞서며, 그 어떤 좋은 것도 나오지 않을 것이다 이미 시작되었다 Alberto Romero 2026년 4월 11일 69 14 공유 토요일에 방해해서 미안합니다. 이것이 중요하다고 생각하여 공유합니다.

I.

직물 기계(loom)에 대해 가장 먼저 배우는 것은 그것이 고장 나기 쉽다는 것이다. 북(shuttle)은 습도에 따라 휘어지는 트랙을 따라 달린다. 헤들(heddles)은 마모되는 코드에 매달려 있다. 리드(reed)는 손으로 구부러진 얇은 금속 조각들의 행으로, 쉽게 원래대로 구부러진다. 워프 빔(warp beam)은 너무 조이면 금이 간다. 페달(treadles)은 관절에서 느슨해진다. 브레스트 빔, 천 롤러, 래칫과 폴, 리스 스틱, 캐슬; 이 모든 장치는 장력으로 유지되는 나무와 끈이다. 그것은 독창성과 기술의 결정체이지만, 야생 식물 섬유에서 만들어지는 옷만큼이나 섬세하다.

또한, 그것은 전체 산업, 즉 직물 산업의 기초 도구로서, 중장비, 공장, 에너지 시설 및 데이터센터의 시대에까지 그 중요성을 유지하고 있다.

데이터센터를 파괴하는 것은 결코 쉽지 않다. 그것은 콘크리트, 강철, 구리로 만들어졌으며 상당히 크다. 교환 가능한 서버, 생체 인식 잠금장치, 높은 전기 울타리, 무장한 경비원들, 그리고 중복성 위에 중복성이 있다: 모든 구성 요소가 복제되어 단일 고장이 전체 시스템을 다운시키지 않는다. 느슨해질 페달이나 구부러질 리드가 없다.

하지만 경비를 피하고, 울타리를 넘고, 잠금장치를 열고, 모든 서버를 찾아냈다고 하자. 그러면 알고리즘과 직면하게 될 것이다. 데이터센터는 결코 당신의 목표가 아니었다; 그 안에 숨어 있는 알고리즘이 목표다. 그것은 그 서버 랙이나 어떤 랙에서도 실행되지 않는다. 그것은 대륙에 걸쳐 미러링되고 수백만 개의 칩에 분산된 디지털 패턴이다; 그것은 다른 곳에서 재구성될 수 있으며, 현대의 메두사처럼 한눈에 당신을 중독시키도록 훈련되었다.

하지만 그 시선을 피하고, 복제를 멈추고, 패턴을 깨뜨렸다고 하자. 그러면 초지능(superintelligence)과 직면하게 될 것이다.

알고리즘 또한 당신의 목표가 아니었다; 그 안에 숨어 있는 활기차고 공령한 잠재적 초지능이 목표다. 글쎄, 여기서는 당신이 할 수 있는 일이 아무것도 없다: 그것은 항상 "상자 밖으로 나오며" 갑자기 당신이 상자 안에 있게 된다, 마치 바나나를 든 인간에게 장난당하는 침팬지처럼. 정말 맛있게...

데이터센터를 파괴하는 또 다른 해결책이 있다: 직물 기계를 망치로 부수듯 폭격하는 것이다. 일부는 이것이 이탈한 초지능이 상자 밖으로 나오지 못하도록 하는 방법이라고 주장했다. 다른 이탈한 존재가 이 제안을 진지하게 받아들였다: 지난달, 이란 혁명수비대는 아부다비에 있는 OpenAI의 스타게이트(Stargate) 캠퍼스의 위성 영상을 공개하고 그 "완전한 파멸"을 약속했다.

하지만 아마도 당신은 소원을 이룰 이탈 국가를 가지고 있지 않을 것이다. 대신 폭격을 당하게 될 수도 있으며, 우리는 그런 일이 일어나기를 원하지 않는다. 이것이 이탈한 지능들에게 일어나는 일이다: 그들을 예측할 수 없다.

그럼에도 불구하고.

200년간의 점점 더 뚫을 수 없는 기술의 발전—직물 기계에서 데이터센터까지—은 그 기술과 함께 살아가는 사람들에 대한 첫 번째 것을 바꾸지 못했다. 기술의 진화는 인간 몸의 영구적인 연약성만큼이나 세계의 특징이다. 그리고 점점 더, 이 필연적인 파멸의 사슬에서 인간이 더 약한 고리가 되고 있다. 그리고 인간이 표적이 될 것이다.

II.

1812년 4월. William Horsfall이라는 제분소 소유주가 영국 Huddersfield의 Cloth Hall 시장에서 아름다운 백색 종마를 타고 집으로 돌아오고 있었다. 그는 몇 주 동안 러다이트(공장 파괴자)의 피 속에 안장까지 타고 가겠다고 자랑했다 (이 피는 공장의 연료 역할을 하는 귀중한 물질이었다). 몇 야드 더 가서, Crosland Moor에서 George Mellor—스물두 살—이라는 남자가 그를 총으로 쐈다. 총알은 Horsfall의 사타구니에 명중했고, 명명 결정론적으로 그는 말에서 떨어졌다. 사람들이 모여들어 그가 가난한 사람들의 억압자였다고 비난했다. 당연히, 그는 죽음에서도 삶에서처럼 자신의 원칙에 충실했기 때문에 그들의 말을 들을 수 없었다. 그는 이튿날 여관에서 사망했다. Mellor는 교수형에 처해졌다.

역사는 운율을 맞춘다고他们说。

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AI Will Be Met With Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It It has started Alberto Romero Apr 11, 2026 69 14 Share Sorry to bother you on Saturday. Thought this was important to share. I. The first thing you learn about a loom is that it’s easy to break. The shuttle runs along a track that warps with humidity. The heddles hang from cords that fray. The reed is a row of thin metal strips, bent by hand, that bend back just as easily. The warp beam cracks if you over-tighten it. The treadles loosen at the joints. The breast beam, the cloth roller, the ratchet and pawl, the lease sticks, the castle; the whole contraption is wood and string held together by tension. It’s a piece of ingenuity and craftsmanship, but one as delicate as the clothes it manifests out of wild plant fibers. It is, also, the foundational tool of an entire industry, textiles, that has kept its relevance to our days of heavy machinery, factories, energy facilities, and datacenters. 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The algorithm was also not your goal; the vibrant, ethereal, latent superintelligence lurking inside is. Well, there’s nothing you can do here: It always “gets out of the box” and, suddenly, you are inside the box, like a chimp being played by a human with a banana. It’s just so tasty… There’s another solution to break a datacenter: You can bomb it, like one hammers down the loom. Some have argued that this is the way to ensure a rogue superintelligence doesn’t get out of the box. A different rogue creature took the proposal seriously: last month, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard released satellite footage of OpenAI’s Stargate campus in Abu Dhabi and promised its “ complete and utter annihilation .” But you probably don’t have a rogue nation handy to fulfill your wishes. Maybe you will end up bombed instead and we don’t want that to happen. That’s what happens with rogue intelligences: you can’t predict them. And yet. Two hundred years of increasingly impenetrable technology—from looms to datacenters—have not changed the first thing about the people who live alongside it. The evolution of technology is a feature of the world just as much as the permanent fragility of the human body. And so, more and more, it is people who are the weaker link in this chain of inevitable doom. And it is people who will be targeted. II. April of 1812. A mill owner named William Horsfall was riding home on his beautiful white stallion back from the Cloth Hall market in Huddersfield, UK. He had spent weeks boasting that he would ride up to his saddle in Luddite blood (a precious substance that served as fuel for the mills). A few yards later, at Crosland Moor, a man named George Mellor—twenty-two years old— shot him . It hit Horsfall in the groin, who, nominative-deterministically, fell from his horse. People gathered, reproaching him for having been the oppressor of the poor. Naturally, loyal to his principles in death as he was in life, he couldn’t hear them. He died one day later in an inn. Mellor was hanged. History rhymes, they say. April of 2026. A datacenter owner named Samuel Altman was driving home on his beautiful white Koenigsegg Regera back from Market Street in San Francisco, US. He had spent weeks boasting that he would scrap and steal our blog posts (a precious substance that serves as fuel for the datacenters). A few hours later, at Russian Hill, a man named Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama—twenty years old— allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at his house. He hit an exterior gate. Altman and his family were asleep, but they’re fine . Moreno-Gama is in custody. This kind of violence must be condemned. This is not the way. It’s horrible that it is happening at all. And yet, for some reason, it keeps happening. Last week, the house of Ron Gibson, a councilman from Indianapolis, was shot at thirteen times . The bullet holes are still there. The shooter left a message on his doorstep: “NO DATA CENTERS.” Gibson supports a datacenter project in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood. He and his son were unharmed. In November 2025, a 27-year-old anti-AI activist threatened to murder people at OpenAI’s SF offices , prompting a lockdown. He had expressed a desire to buy weapons. Increasingly, as the objects of people’s anger and frustration and desperation become unreachable behind fences and guards, or abstracted away in ones and zeros, or elevated above the clouds, the mob will turn their unassailable emotions toward human targets. I don’t want to trivialize the grievances of the people who fear for their futures. I don’t want to defend Altman’s decisions. But this is not the way. This is how things devolve into chaos. And I wonder: how desperate can people be before these isolated events become a snowball of violence that will be resisted by neither datacenters nor rich people’s houses? III. Every time I hear from Amodei or Altman that I could lose my job, I don’t think “oh, ok, then allow me pay you $20/month so that I can adapt to these uncertain times that have fallen upon my destiny by chance.” I think: “ you , for fuck’s sake, you are doing this.” And I consider myself a pretty levelheaded guy, so imagine what not-so-levelheaded people think. There’s a lot of friction to escalating violence, but that friction dissolves the moment this sentiment starts to be common. Normally, it just fades away anyway, but there’s one scenario where I see it inevitably escalating: If people feel that they have no place in the future. If they feel expelled from the system—they’re unable to buy stuff, their skills become obsolete, their chance at earning a living is replaced by a swarm of AI agents, they think we are truly going to die (so far, the violence has been tied mostly to safety AI movements)—then they will feel they have nothing to lose. 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