It is not that the people of Taiwan are somehow magically free from backlash. In fact, 10 years ago, when Uber came to Taiwan, we had some of the largest protests — that too was a backlash. It was not generally about AI, although Uber was also an AI system that said, in effect, "we're just a vendor, we're improving the efficiency of your roads, we're promoting carpooling" and so on. But the point is that we do not treat polarisation, or even street demonstrations, as a volcanic eruption to flee from. Because by 2015 we were already deploying this overlapping-consensus system, we see polarisation and protest as fuel — like a geothermal engine that turns the heat of disagreement into power for democratic renewal.