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Ludds - Data Panel
Definition: anti-tech and often anti-ai biont sociotype Toposophic Level: Baseline Equivalent Major Sophont Phyla: baseline-equivalent (rarely pure genome baselines, more often plebhu and lazurobaseline idealists). Occasionally also other nearbaseline subspecies, but this is rare Affiliation: non-aligned/independent Metapsychology: traditionalist, conservative, reactionary, individualist (leaders only), supportive (within the group), technophobic, aiphobic Metaethics: supremacist, utopian, cooperation within the group or with others of like mind, full sentient rights and considerations extended to other hu clades, but rarely to other biont species and phyla, let alone other sophont categories, usually friendly and helpful to other ludds Religion/Ideology: Hu Supremacist, pre-singularity romanticist, sometimes supernaturalist theocratic and messianic religions Culture and Art: mostly religious or traditional-centered, emphasise culture-heroes, the delights of (often romanticised and idealised) lo tech primitivism, tales of hu victory over "the machines" are ubiquitous Some representative Clades and Subcultures: The Church of the Original Ludd, The True Kaczynskites and off-shoots, variants, and imitators, The Havenites (Original, Reformed, etc), the New Havenites, Bayuottianist ideologies of various kinds, the Church of Noble Hu, the Society of God (lower Perseus regions), The Church of Man (Traditional) Current Galactographic Distribution: found in widely dispersed communities, mostly isolated from the main nexus. The largest concentration is in the counterspinwise Perseus Rift Civilization Tech Level: generally Lo Tech and Macrotech/Macroscale, although a few more liberal groups like the Church of Man (Traditional) are High Tech. Power and Influence: Negligible Some Characteristic Polities: Tylania, the The Reydovan Empire, and a number of similar extreme or eccentric polities. The Interplanetary Age Aryan Morningstar League is sometimes cited by less-informed critics, but their society was so dysfunctional and ludicrous that even the most extreme and autocratic ludds dismiss it as "AI disinformation" or as "pseudo-luddism" |
A Luddite is anyone who rejects advanced sephirotic and equivalent technology. Ludds only use tech that can be used by ordinary humans; without needing transapients or advanced ai to operate. The ideology is tied in with hu pride, getting back to the roots, freedom and independence from ai, and so on. There is sometimes overlap between ludds and hu supremacists
So a Ludd might be anything from pre-industrial age "lo tech" to the equivalent of old interplanetary age "hi tech". However those latter would be considered pseudo-Ludds and very much held in contempt by "genuine" (extreme) ludds. It is only those very liberal and "small l" ludds that would allow idiot savant hyperturings, and other such advanced tech aids.
Most large ludd and hu supremacy polities (the type that would own large ships, or even a fleet) fall into two camps.
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Macrotech Macroscale Civilizations
