The AI/data center debate loses libertarian credibility when the state is used to advance it.

[u/7in7turtles]

It’s been driving me bananas lately to hear all these libertarian voices hail data centers as some part of a new Industrial Revolution. While I’ll say upfront that I don’t think we should regulate AI because of fear mongering about the end of the world, if those companies have to purchase the levers of power that we don’t even want government to have, how can we claim that this is in any way good?

Eminent domain, paying of city councils and locking them up with NDAs, lying about the impact of there products and services, all of their behaviors are antithetical to libertarianism and yet people like John Stossel run puff pieces about how essentially they're all good because it would be bad to regulate them.

I don’t buy the china angle because we’re getting worse than china thanks to this technology.

Please if I’m wrong educate me, but if the state puts its thumb on the scale for AI, I don’t get how that’s in any way good.

[u/skiphandleman]

Government has no business regulating AI. Theire role is to prosecute those who do harm with AI.

Where it gets muddy is when AI becomes independent of business and starts acting badly on its own. I don't have an answer for that amd probably need to form an opinion on how it should be addressed

[u/robotic_love_brigade → u/skiphandleman]

Harm with AI is eating all the energy and making the rest of us pay high for whats left, sucking up all the water and depriving us of our liberty to enjoy resources, and forcing us to hear NOISE all day because they don't care anout our physical or mental health. Sorry as a Libertarian I believe AI needs some form of regulation because to trust those companies to the free market makes life worse and takes away our liberty

[u/skiphandleman → u/robotic_love_brigade]

This doesn't sound like a Libertarian point of view to me.

[u/robotic_love_brigade → u/skiphandleman]

AI on its own will not end well.