This seems the opposite of the truth if anything? On the politician side we’ve had Democratic congressman, Republican AGs, and a bipartisan bill, activating after the HF incident, but on the base side, what @_rpd said.
Though I think the answer might be different if we’re talking about broadly ‘AI safety regulation’ (bipartisan-ish) v. ‘shut it all down’ (supported by Sanders-style left-populists and Bannon-style right-populists, but the former are increasingly dominant in the party and the latter are completely marginalized by now).
That is what I’m talking about, yes. I think datacenters are not the important issue here, and opinions elsewhere are more balanced. Not exactly even but remarkably so, since in the US pretty much anything that can be polarized, is.
What are you talking about when you say “the truth?” Polarization on what issue?
I don’t know of polls on the “shut it all down for safety” issue but I’m not making claims about that. I agree that the fraction on both sides is too small to matter. I think it’s also too small to draw strong conclusions about future trends.
What I am saying is that there’s far less polarization on AI than climate. (And I think climate/environment polarization explains the relatively small imbalance data centers (since the left mistakenly believes they’re a big environmental/water issue).
I think both bases are afraid of job loss and unnamed societal changes, and looking for an excuse to hate and shut down AI. The excuse might need to be a little sturdier than the flimsy datacenter thing, but I don’t think it needs to be much better.
This seems the opposite of the truth if anything? On the politician side we’ve had Democratic congressman, Republican AGs, and a bipartisan bill, activating after the HF incident, but on the base side, what @_rpd said.
Though I think the answer might be different if we’re talking about broadly ‘AI safety regulation’ (bipartisan-ish) v. ‘shut it all down’ (supported by Sanders-style left-populists and Bannon-style right-populists, but the former are increasingly dominant in the party and the latter are completely marginalized by now).
That is what I’m talking about, yes. I think datacenters are not the important issue here, and opinions elsewhere are more balanced. Not exactly even but remarkably so, since in the US pretty much anything that can be polarized, is.
What are you talking about when you say “the truth?” Polarization on what issue?
I don’t know of polls on the “shut it all down for safety” issue but I’m not making claims about that. I agree that the fraction on both sides is too small to matter. I think it’s also too small to draw strong conclusions about future trends.
What I am saying is that there’s far less polarization on AI than climate. (And I think climate/environment polarization explains the relatively small imbalance data centers (since the left mistakenly believes they’re a big environmental/water issue).
I think both bases are afraid of job loss and unnamed societal changes, and looking for an excuse to hate and shut down AI. The excuse might need to be a little sturdier than the flimsy datacenter thing, but I don’t think it needs to be much better.