Does Moravec Paradox justify Neo-Luddism?

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Does Moravec Paradox justify Neo-Luddism?

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This is an issue I've been thinking about recently: isn't Neo-Luddism justified even if the 19th century Luddism wasn't? In the 19th century, the blue-collar jobs were threatened by machines, making people, in the long run, take easier white-collar jobs. Today, the white-collar jobs are being threatened by the artificial intelligence, forcing people, in the long run, to take harder blue-collar jobs. We are almost in the opposite situation now than we were in the 19th century.
I think that, if not for the Moravec Paradox, Luddism would be ridiculous. But considering that Moravec Paradox is true and that white-collar jobs are more likely to be automated than blue-collar jobs...
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