29 May

There is no public backlash against AI. Just as there is none against windmills, and solar farms, and EVs and vaccines. ‘The public’ is not a thing, thinking and acting. Activists enlist members of the public to their causes, and then retrospectively attribute their cause to them. The pushback against AI and data centres is being led by a tiny number of activists. All change is led by tiny numbers of people. Everybody else then follows, in imitation of that tiny number. For example Australians originally embraced wind farms, they found them a fun curiosity. Councils even built viewing platforms to view them. Until Barnaby Joyce invented hysteria about them as a distraction, when his leadership of the Nationals was in free fall because of him shagging his staff, and being drunk in public.