Bigger second order effects on your day to day life by 2030: cheap energy or self-driving cars?
Energy and it’s not close. It’s deeper into the ecosystem of our society. Impacts would be felt throughout way more aspects of society. We could argue all our growth is built on ever cheaper energy. Nothing comes as close imo, by order of magnitude. Unless you mean better AI but I’d still go with energy!
Energy because it’s an input into all materials, including self driving cars! Also cheap energy would imply we’re making great progress on climate change
Cheap energy would have a more positive effect on my day-to-day. Cheaper bill = more money to do X, Y, Z. Might open more doors for me to try things or continue doing things that are energy intensive - growing food indoors
Cheap energy! I have an interview releasing soon about this!
Cheap abundant energy. A tiny power plant in every home building and vehicle. No more grid, no more transmission lines, no more fossil fuels. Not by 2030 though ;)
I want to say cheap energy but if I could go the rest of my life without ever being rear ended again that would be terrific
Cheap energy. Leads to abundant drinking water through desalination, industrial scale carbon sequestration, cheaper to go to orbit assuming reusable rockets.
Energy! Everything in our day to day life and society at large scales 100x with cheap energy. And probably catalyzes self-driving cars harder.
Developing country, cheap energy. Developed country, self-driving.
Somehow I think in Twitter there will be more votes for self driving cars
Cheap energy But Self driving cars might be a second order effect of cheap energy
For a lot of people in cities in Europe cars are barely relevant so for me 100% cheap energy
Cheap energy. Chamath talked about it on the later Lex Fridman podcast as well (timestamped link). https://overcast.fm/+eZyBPHAXc/1:02:13
You’d need to be more specific in terms of how cheap the energy
Cheap energy. Need to reach Type 1 Civilisation stage.
Self driving cars give me time, cheap energy gives me money. I currently have more money than time, so I’ll take the former.
I think it’s a bit like asking about bigger second order effects between internet or the web browser. Cheap energy. Internet.
Cheap energy. I drive less than an hour a day but I use energy 24 hrs a day.
absolutely cheap energy IMO one of our biggest policy failures of the past 50 years is not building loads of nuclear plants in the 80s and 90s and having <$0.01/kWh electricity
Global cheap energy lifts the 3rd world into the 1st world. Once you’re here, self driving is maybe incrementally a larger effect on my life
