I never really understood, but now that that house bill passed that may end up blocking AI regulation from individual States. I get it. I don’t like knowing that even if everyone in my state wanted to stop companies from using AI for hiring decisions, we couldn’t.
Texans, I feel you.
Edit: I’m learning a lot about Texas in this thread. Thanks for all the context folks.
People on the internet are prone to criticize, it’s okay to have gained an appreciation for the idea of states rights vs federalism from a slightly lower impact or more niche issue rather than one of the huge ones.
Its always a tradeoff both ways. The more rights the states have independent from the federal government, the harder it can be to get everyone on the same page about doing good things, but it’s also a lot easier to independently build good things when the trend nationally is garbage.
The question is what compromise feels right to you, and personally I can respect and empathize with a number of positions on the topic. There’s a reason the framers (fallible as they were) debated this architectural question so much- it really changes the shape of what exactly the federal government is.
I really appreciate your tone. A lot of folks are (reasonably) offended with the framing.
I’m curious how those debates went. I see the utility of the union, but we’ve definitely also seen the tyranny of it. You definitely wouldn’t get the states to become the union if they were all split right now.