avatarPaul Pallaghy, PhD

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al but through green tech not austerity.</p><p id="89ed">True to my centrism, I support moderate degrowth and severe plastic reduction but maintenance of our diverse cultures and nations and a multi-billion person population.</p><p id="769d">I’m ultra pro emerging technologies because they can affordably and rapidly achieve a ‘best of both worlds’:</p><p id="d66f">(1) Green tech is significantly cheaper than fossil fuels now.</p><p id="14f7">For sure.</p><p id="4510">(2) Like I said earlier: Tech can up GDP and thus global prosperity by literally up to or more than 10x.</p><p id="4880">That’s not a hope either.</p><p id="70f9">I find it the exact opposite: it’s delusional or chronic tech ignorance to imagine AI & robotics won’t achieve that.</p><p id="5967">Barring WW3 or Big Brother. Or a bad AI Singularity.</p><p id="3e65">As long as we stay in control, to imagine that cheap androids and other robots aren’t upon us by say 2027 or won’t transform life for the better is a huge misreading of the pace of ad

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vances.</p><p id="de00">AI-driven tech will:</p><ul><li>increase standard of living, GDP x2–20</li><li>make everything cheap</li><li>return manufacturing to the west</li><li>clean up environmental messes</li><li>enable greener agriculture</li></ul><p id="1930">And 100 other things.</p><p id="7de4">Even cheap camera-based FSD self-driving is predicted to increase GDP by up to 50%. People don’t understand how FREIGHT costs affect economies.</p><p id="68c7">Not to mention the convenience for students and the disabled. All of us. Robotaxis will be transformational.</p><p id="702e">We just need to (1) <b>spread the wealth</b>.</p><p id="2cd3">That’s got a built-in self-correction: if gov doesn’t do it, there’ll be anarchy.</p><p id="6c3b">Remember the resources that manufacturing uses is everyone’s, not just the fat cat business owners. How dare you use my iron ore and not give me some profits beyond taxes?</p><p id="4de4">And (2) <b>keep life meaningful</b>.</p><p id="b512">That one’s up to us.</p></article></body>

Why I’m so bullish on green tech, AI & community-minded centrism

Tech can demonstrably and sustainably up GDP and thus global prosperity by literally up to or more than 10x.

Within 15 years.

And by ‘centrism’ I’m not talking isolationist libertarianism.

I mean you select from the left AND right.

On its merits.

So I’m virtually communist in wanting a UBI (universal basic income), a strong welfare net & universal health.

But like a righty I’d get (unemployed) people to work 2 or 3 days for it. For their own self-esteem as much as community benefit.

Like a righty I mock and expose cancel culture and over-wokeness for its grotesquely ultra-hypocritical intolerance.

I support 100% carbon neutral but through green tech not austerity.

True to my centrism, I support moderate degrowth and severe plastic reduction but maintenance of our diverse cultures and nations and a multi-billion person population.

I’m ultra pro emerging technologies because they can affordably and rapidly achieve a ‘best of both worlds’:

(1) Green tech is significantly cheaper than fossil fuels now.

For sure.

(2) Like I said earlier: Tech can up GDP and thus global prosperity by literally up to or more than 10x.

That’s not a hope either.

I find it the exact opposite: it’s delusional or chronic tech ignorance to imagine AI & robotics *won’t* achieve that.

Barring WW3 or Big Brother. Or a bad AI Singularity.

As long as we stay in control, to imagine that cheap androids and other robots aren’t upon us by say 2027 or won’t transform life for the better is a huge misreading of the pace of advances.

AI-driven tech will:

  • increase standard of living, GDP x2–20
  • make everything cheap
  • return manufacturing to the west
  • clean up environmental messes
  • enable greener agriculture

And 100 other things.

Even cheap camera-based FSD self-driving is predicted to increase GDP by up to 50%. People don’t understand how FREIGHT costs affect economies.

Not to mention the convenience for students and the disabled. All of us. Robotaxis will be transformational.

We just need to (1) spread the wealth.

That’s got a built-in self-correction: if gov doesn’t do it, there’ll be anarchy.

Remember the resources that manufacturing uses is everyone’s, not just the fat cat business owners. How dare you use my iron ore and not give me some profits beyond taxes?

And (2) keep life meaningful.

That one’s up to us.

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