I think one challenge is sort of the level at which morality happens at. For the left and right, the value judgements happen at sort of different levels of abstraction. And so I do think it gets weird to say something like "facts don't matter to conservatives" but I think that the problem is politics is more about values than facts.
So one value is that both Conservatives and liberals clearly value life. But I remember reading a conservative defense of loose gun laws, and it's like, the conservatives value something at a higher level than life here, call it freedom from tyranny or whatever, but the "facts" about gun deaths don't matter, because they're not relevant to the value conservatives are trying to protect. And when conservatives come from different religious traditions with different low level values, that makes it really hard to provide consistent both-sides in an LLM.
This does happen in the reverse, most folks would say far left economic views value redistribution of wealth over objective levels of abundance, but I think this is why people say reality has a liberal bias, the more you put layers of values like religion in front of things, the less you care about "facts". Part of having strong values is that you believe in them in the face of reality.
I really enjoy the doublespeak of "reality has a liberal bias". I can't think of a more telling and compelling example of the distortion caused by the binary lens of American politics.
It's not just American politics. This stuff is infecting other countries too. Dutch right-wing parties are also becoming increasingly detached from reality. A small one that just doubled in size has a history of embracing every hoax and conspiracy theory they can find, whereas the most realistic and effective housing plans came from a left-wing party. A formerly-respectable conservative-liberal party has made it clear they do not want to work with that particular, and prefer an openly racist party.
So one value is that both Conservatives and liberals clearly value life. But I remember reading a conservative defense of loose gun laws, and it's like, the conservatives value something at a higher level than life here, call it freedom from tyranny or whatever, but the "facts" about gun deaths don't matter, because they're not relevant to the value conservatives are trying to protect. And when conservatives come from different religious traditions with different low level values, that makes it really hard to provide consistent both-sides in an LLM.
This does happen in the reverse, most folks would say far left economic views value redistribution of wealth over objective levels of abundance, but I think this is why people say reality has a liberal bias, the more you put layers of values like religion in front of things, the less you care about "facts". Part of having strong values is that you believe in them in the face of reality.