REINFORCEMENT LEARNING & BOOLEAN LOGIC ON CITIZEN DATA CENTER DELIBERATION

Mining Equifinal Causal Recipes for Data Center Resistance

Bridging Deborah Stone’s Policy Paradox causal stories with Charles Ragin’s Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Discovering how heterogeneous American citizen archetypes—sampled directly from GSS 2022 survey microdata—deliberate over hyperscale AI grid strain, aquifer depletion, and zoning moratoriums.

GSS Archetypes 4 Clusters Calibrated on N=3,784 respondents
Action Combinations 1,600 Recipes Causal stories ∧ characters ∧ frames
Simulation Episodes 500 Runs Pre/Post Likert shifts recorded
Empirical Cases 430 Moratoriums Mapped from US municipal archives

GSS Citizen Archetypes

Empirical clusters extracted from GSS 2022 survey coordinates

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Progressive Conservationist
24.8% of sample • Polviews 2.96
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Pro-Growth Conservative
12.1% of sample • Polviews 5.04
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Working-Class Defender
35.2% of sample • Polviews 3.40
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Conservative Ratepayer Skeptic
28.0% of sample • Polviews 5.05
High education and income; high trust in science; strongly pro-environmental protection; analyzes data centers through climate grid decarbonization, corporate accountability, and environmental justice.
Political Ideology (1=Lib, 7=Cons) 2.96
Median Income $75,960
Trust in Science High (1.51)
Trust in Federal Government Moderate (1.97)
Sample GSS 2022 Persona: Female, Age 43, Bachelor's Degree, Suburban Ohio. Ideology: Liberal, Prior Stance: 5.2 / 7.0 (Leaning Moratorium).

Narrative Synthesizer

Construct a discrete NPF causal recipe vector

Realized Public Comment
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Citizen Deliberative Reaction (In-Silico Environment)

Live cognitive shift (ΔY) across all 4 archetypes when exposed to the synthesized narrative

Charles Ragin's QCA Truth Tables & Equifinal Recipes

Minimal Boolean pathways discovered by the Quine-McCluskey minimizer across 500 episodes

Causal Recipe (C ∧ M ∧ E) Consistency Frequency (N) Average Shift (ΔY) Status
Minimal Sufficient Boolean Formula:
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Empirical Data Center Moratoriums (Ground Truth)

Municipal ordinances from data_center_moratoriums.csv reflecting community resistance rhetoric

Locality / Jurisdiction State Status & Duration Primary Causal Grievance Dominant Stone Story