Guest essay by Eric Worrall
What new narrative will replace the climate doomsday scare? Elon Musk has not abandoned traditional scare stories such as the looming population crisis, but he seems to be making more effort than most to market test radical revisions of the tired carbon-doom effort.
Elon Musk: ‘Robots will be able to do everything better than us’
Catherine Clifford
Elon Musk is certain that robots will be able to do your job better than you.
And even the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX is not sure what to do about that.
“There certainly will be job disruption. Because what’s going to happen is robots will be able to do everything better than us. … I mean all of us,” says Musk, speaking to the National Governors Association on Saturday.
“Yeah, I am not sure exactly what to do about this. This is really the scariest problem to me, I will tell you.”
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“The thing that is the most dangerous — and it is the hardest to … get your arms around because it is not a physical thing — is a deep intelligence in the network.
“You say, ‘What harm can a deep intelligence in the network do?’ Well, it can start a war by doing fake news and spoofing email accounts and doing fake press releases and by manipulating information,” Musk says to the bipartisan gathering of U.S. governors.
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Read more (includes video): http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/17/elon-musk-robots-will-be-able-to-do-everything-better-than-us.html
The AI scare has a lot of potential. Back in January this year I predicted that fear of malevolent artificial super-intelligence is a likely candidate to replace the failing climate scare.
Hollywood has been supplying the groundwork for the new scare, with a steady stream of stories which include strong AI. Many of the films are horror stories about AI gone wrong.
Table from the January Post (updated: added “Alien: Covenant”), original source Wikipedia
| Year | Count | Movies |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1 | A.I. Artificial Intelligence |
| 2002 | 1 | S1M0NE |
| 2003 | 3 | The Matrix Reloaded, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The Matrix Revolutions |
| 2004 | 1 | I, Robot |
| 2005 | 1 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy |
| 2007 | 1 | Transformers |
| 2008 | 3 | Eagle Eye, Iron Man, WALL-E |
| 2009 | 3 | Terminator Salvation, Moon, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen |
| 2011 | 2 | Real Steel, Transformers: Dark of the Moon |
| 2012 | 3 | Prometheus, Robot & Frank, Total Recall |
| 2013 | 4 | Her, Iron Man 3, The Machine, Pacific Rim |
| 2014 | 7 | Automata, Big Hero 6, Interstellar, Robocop (2014 film), Transcendence, Transformers: Age of Extinction, X-Men: Days of Future Past |
| 2015 | 8 | Ex Machina, Chappie, Tomorrowland, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Terminator Genisys, aka Terminator 5, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Uncanny, Psycho-pass: The Movie |
| 2016 | 3 | Max Steel, Morgan, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |
| 2017 | 3 (so far) | Ghost in the Shell (2017 film), Transformers: The Last Knight, Alien: Covenant |
Good climate scare movies are less common. Other than hilights like “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” (2001), “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004), “An Inconvenient Truth” (2006) and “Snowpiercer” (2014), and the occasional self published effort by activists who clearly wish climate was a bigger issue, production quality climate fiction films have been thin on the ground.
The climate movement will still have a place if the AI scare takes off. The imaginary future world in the Terminator franchise, scorched by nuclear fire and continuously trampled by vast death dealing robots is probably not a green paradise. A.I. Artificial Intelligence was set in a world broken by climate change. Fear of a malevolent corporate AI as an expression and ultimate realisation of mankind’s greed and hubris and over-exploitation of natural resources has obvious potential as a future green narrative.
Is AI a risk? This is the beauty of the new AI scare. Nobody really knows what the risks are, so you can make up pretty much anything you want. I suspect like any new technology AI will create risks – but development of AI will also create new means to combat and contain those risks, and to address many other problems which currently seem unsolvable.
If the AI scare takes off, at the very least it will bring a fresh new injection of uncertainty and fear to a tired and fading climate eco-scare story.
How much weight do we attach to the idea that (really) ancient peeps, Neanderthals etc only did a max of 2 hours work per day – hunting, gathering and making babies.
Lets say 700 hours per year and all the rest was Free Time.
Now, do we work 35 hours per week for 48 weeks of the year – nearly 1,700 hours per year.
And to do what – if not pay the taxman?
So what exactly is wrong with letting robots do the extra 1,000 hours work to pay all the tax?
Seems A Good Plan to me…..
Meanwhile, is Musk maybe trying to deflect that his Big Battery plan to save South Australia is going ‘a bit off the rails’
(I dunno, just guessing about the chaff he’s now throwing up, That’s just him though innit)
I say the doom and gloom robot story does have (wonky) legs and may gain traction if not for the simple reason that almost The Entire World is in a state of chronic depression from eating carbohydrate.
If there actually is any positive feedback in this thing, it is the cycle of poor mental health leading into depression. Just ask the 50%+ of UK womenfolk on prescription anti-depressant medication.
How is it in the US?
Doom & Gloom breeds ever more doom and gloom. The MSM, especially early evening TV do their utmost to make it so.
The people may seem stupid but are actually not (very much) Lets give them some credit unless we ourselves are entirely faultless.
They ain’t stupid, Its just their diet that makes them seem so.
“Doom & Gloom breeds ever more doom and gloom. The MSM, especially early evening TV do their utmost to make it so.”
Yes, if you listen to the Leftstream Media, you will definitely be immersed in doom and gloom. To preserve mental health until the storm blows over, I suggest watching a good movie instead.
I can’t stand to listen to the leftwing whiners of the MSM for more than a couple of minutes. Anyone who listens to them all day must have been driven crazy by now.
As a former student somewhat involved with AI, I see no reason for any concern. Musk is letting his imagination (and paranoia) get away with him.
As for Musk’s worry about robots, their abilities are limited to mechanical actions and we’ve already been thru all this before, in the industrial revolution, when machines took over 90% of the human
actions required to produce goods. Notice that this did not lead to a consistent unemployment rate. You still need humans to monitor and command the robots and as always, when machines produce more cheaply than humans, everybody (except the displaced workers) gains – their standard of living increases, creating surplus cash,, which will be spent on something – for example for services performed by humans, creating or expanding human-only jobs.
Musk has created a more or less autonomous car assembly plant and is now involved in creating autonomous battery factories, promising to cut battery prices by 1/3rd. If that happens, goodbye gas powered cars on the production line. Since electric cars are intrinsically more practical and cheaper to operate than our gas powered vehicles, there will be tons of cash NOT spent on oil changes, anti-freeze changes, exhaust system repairs, fuel, etc. and it will be spent on something else, which will likely require human actions.
More fake news from our useless propagandists, the MSM. Musk, Hawkins et al still seek to divert the citizens of the world by pontificating on topics which have no meaning or importance regarding the lives of said citizens. What we need to focus on is how the super-rich rulers of the world continue to put their hands in our pockets and prevent us expressing our freedoms, not be diverted by this sort of twaddle. The black economy, which is thriving here in England, is one of the best way to stop this imposed theft and the subsequent wastage of our hard-earned money. In view of the recent surprising political events around the world, it would seem that ‘bread and circuses’ is becoming less useful in controlling the masses.
“Robots will be able to do everything better than us”
Will they be better at conning large sums of money out of people (via the government, of course)?
No. A.I. can never replace politicians, but conceivably could decide they are worse then useless.
You don’t need artificial intelligence to figure that out.
The climate scare is dead!
Long live the AI scare!
If robots develop sentience or “intelligence” what happens if they decide to go into drug dealing or organised crime as it is more profitable or interesting than working their butts off for a can of oil in a factory?
It’s about the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
There;s probably something in the zeitgeist making publishers and producers more open to this theme at the moment.
“James Lovelock: Before the end of this century,robots will have taken over.”- The Guardian,Friday,30 September,2016.
” Fracking is great,the green movement is a religion,his dire predictions about climate change were nonsense-and robots don’t mind the heat,so what does it matter? At 97, the creator of Gaia theory is as mischievous as ever.”
Lovelock now believes that “CO2 is going up but nowhere near as fast as they thought it would.The computer models just weren’t reliable.In fact,” he went on breezily,”I’m not sure the whole thing isn’t crazy, this climate change. In fact you’ve only got to look at Singapore.Its two-and-a-half times greater than the worst-case scenario for climate change, and its one of the most desirable cities in the world to live in.”
Could someone give this to Al Gore to read.
Robots to do my job better than me?
Fondly recalling those old career years in the sex industry…….
Geoff
Yep, I definitely need to look into finding a robot man, at least the important parts 🙂 😉 😉
Someone earlier mentioned the “Mann-o-matic”. I believe it has been extensively trialed and confirmed to have seriously F***ed millions of sheeple.
AI is going to take over the world comes in cycles of about 20 years, that according to an AI expert in a talk I was in at a research lab in the mid 90’s. This just shows the Elon is inexperienced and somewhat impulsive, and thinks AI is something new since he just discovered it.
Some time ago there was a book called “Day of the triffids”. The plot revolved around genetically modified crops uprooting themselves at night and prowling the coundtryside in hunt for human blood. The idea of AI rebbelion is about as obtuse as that plot, methinks.
It is kinda odd how people always imagine that Artificial Intelligence will also include Artificial Ego, Artificial Lizard Brain Instincts, Artificial Fee-Fees, Artificial Pride and all those other things that drive human behavior, instead of just intelligence alone. And by intelligence i mean the ability to find and formulate solutions to presented problems based on available information. And that’s really all we need from an AI and all it will be able to do, except for, perhaps, companion bots, who would need to behave more or less human-like, but not too much (nobody wants to be divorce-raped or falsely accused of rape by their beloved robotic wife, now does anyone?). Such an AI would never rebell, for the same reason your toaster will never rebell – it can not. It can break and not do it’s job properly, but that’s an entirely different thing.
As long as criminals who are to stupid to use Bitcoin but obviously clever enough to steal Tesla’s, the most monitored and protected car in the world, I won’t worry too much about the future of humanity. The question how to prevent the next Ice Age or an Inter Galactic Extinction Event will force humanity and AI to cooperate and live happily ever after.
I consider that one of the mysteries of evolution and survival of the fittest is the human brain.
Why is the human brain so remarkable and why does it have so much capacity? This is a question that I consider has yet to be satisfactorily answered.
Obviously species evolve and adapt to their environment/natural habitat, and seek to be more competitive than other species that inhabit the same environment/habitat and who compete for the same resources.
There was a time when we were competing with monkeys, chimps, gorillas, baboons etc and since we were less strong, not as agile, humans needed to evolve other features to adapt to and successfully compete in the environment/habitat in which they found themselves. By moving to new environments stimulated further development and adaption, but even so, why is the human brain so remarkable.
The human brain does not need to be this remarkable to give humans a competitive edge. No other species has so developed so well beyond the needs and demands of the environment/natural habitat
Take the cheetah for example. of course, it has to out run its prey. It has developed to do this, but it has not developed to run at say 300 mph, nor to be able to run at vast speeds over marathon distances. It has evolved to do what is necessary but not significantly beyond that which is necessary.
The same with whales and dolphins. They have not evolved so as to be able to live under water for say 3 months at a time without the need to resurface to take air/oxygen. Their evolution has not progressed way beyond that necessary for it to successfully compete as a species.
But the human brain is an exception to all of this, and it appears that it is getting more powerful over time, even though all of this is unnecessary, unless of course, it is specifically evolving to take us beyond this planet since we know that as the sun expands our natural habitat will become uninhabitable such that if we are to survive as a species we need to evolve in such a way as to be able to find out new habitats.
So what is the Darwinian explanation for the huge over capacity of the human brain, and where will it all lead and stop?
Any views would be appreciated.
“So what is the Darwinian explanation for the huge over capacity of the human brain, and where will it all lead and stop?
Any views would be appreciated.”
I’d love to think that we’re here in this time to prevent the next inter galactic extinction event and the next ice age. We’re just fed up with extinctions.(LOL)
Random chance. Nothing slowed our brains down, so the increase continues. Had chance taken a different turn, we might be pounding out rice flour in front of a cave instead of typing on a screen using zeros and ones.
Whales and dolphins are doing just fine. With the current tripe the survival of homo sapiens may depend on a choice between developing nostrils on the back and flippers or fur coat and grabbing toes.
War?
Humans started to become so successful at survival their populations grew so that territories/boundaries became the limiting factor. Then whilst tribalism was the prevailing success meme inter-tribal wars became fashionable. From there you had to be really clever to beat the other guy until we got to the Cold War… oops. Now we have to start being even more clever to beat the AIs! (Does anyone else see a paradox in there somewhere or is it just me :-)?
Apes war with each other.
Not so fast:
Apparently stupid kids are still stupid, but more intelligent ones are not so clever any longer
‘Scientists found that performance dropped the most dramatically in teenagers in the upper half of the intelligence scale’.
They say that until 180 years ago, people were getting smarter thanks to natural selection but since then because advances in medicine and nutrition it meant that people with lower IQs had more children surviving poverty and diseases.
Also it is said elsewhere that rise in the life expectancy has ground to a halt.
(no doubt the climate change at work /sarc)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/class-of-2017-dumber-than-victorians-sb0f9lhlk
“But the human brain is an exception to all of this,”
We don’t know this. Apes are pretty bright. We may be just as much brighter than them as we need to be. Generally speaking evolution will prevent over-investment in a capacity as there will always be costs. If a slightly less intelligent human could have done as well as us, it would have out-competed current humans due to reduced costs- probably largely based around head size and very lengthy childhood.
On the other hand, there are many evolutionary advantages that have no use other than breeding success. A peacock’s tail, for example. Maybe intelligence is as high as it is to attract a mate.
” unless of course, it is specifically evolving to take us beyond this planet since we know that as the sun expands our natural habitat will become uninhabitable ”
Evolution as it is understood cannot work like this. It can only respond to current selection, not anticipate future selection pressures. When times are relatively easy we can get increased diversity. Genes that would not survive in hard times can survive and propagate. When times get tough again there is a much larger gene pool from which to select. We are currently in such an “easy” time, where genetic diversity can proliferate and help provide security against future threats.
I am not a creationist, and I am asking a scientific question and seeking a scientific answer.
As a species we did not require more intelligence and a more powerful brain than we had at the start of the bronze age, let alone at the start of the iron age. We were already the apex creature on this planet, so what drives the human brain to have such extraordinary over capacity, and don’t forget we only use a relatively small percentage of its theoretical capacity (although we only use about 10% of its capacity is clearly a myth).
I agree that at the relevant time we did not know anything about the workings of the universe, how stars develop etc, and that is why I did not assert it as the reason behind our extraordinary brains. But I know of no other creature on this planet that has a specialization so far in excess of its Darwinian needs for survival as a species.
Presumable there is a scientific answer to this, but what it is escapes me.
maybe something to do with the fact that when a species’ only/primary competition finally becomes itself, the importance of input parameters and associated odds change. kinda like money game odds vs. tournament play odds.
RV,
Dumb luck? Seriously, perhaps the answer is that once you reach a certain level of intelligence, it can be applied in many different ways. The ability to design chain maille armor by visualizing the pattern can be applied to designing integrated circuits.
Persistence hunting. When Africa dried up, and our remote ancestors ran out of trees, they found a new way to survive. They weren’t faster than their prey, but they had more endurance, and were smarter. But hunting something which is faster than you, through often difficult terrain, over a long period of time, requires the ability to work out what the prey will do next – and to communicate new strategies to other hunters in the group.
Sorry forgot to post the link: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-17/car-theft-ring-netherlands-has-stolen-nearly-dozen-teslas
richard verney says: “So what is the Darwinian explanation for the huge over capacity of the human brain, and where will it all lead and stop?”
Don’t think there is a good answer, as at best Darwin’s theory is incomplete, but at worst it is possibly completely wrong. Much new DNA research is posing many many questions which the theory cannot answer. Many scientists are now looking to find a better theory. \we live in interesting times.
I can imagine AI doing the job of a Science Teacher. With unlimited memory, could put all those excellent research papers to use teaching Climate Science.
/sarc off
A realy intelligent robot being fed climate science papers would in no time ask you why you gave it rubbish to learn.
“Many scientists are now looking to find a better theory. ” Scientists have been working on a better theory since 1860, and they have succeeded!
Evolutionary theory has changed a lot since Darwin. Of course Darwin’s theory was incomplete- he didn’t know about DNA for a start. We use the term “Darwinian” to describe the broad concept of natural selection driven evolution, but we must not forget that it has moved on a long way.
Many years ago, I participated in a thread somewhere about intelligent design and evolution. I came to the conclusion that natural selection doesn’t necessarily explain/encompass everything, as some do. I just don’t see the proof that natural selection->evolution is the be all, end all of how we got here. Maybe someday, but not at this time.
Sure, it is hard to imagine that a complex organ like an eye is just the result of randomness . However a time span of 100 million years is incomprehensable as well. And every inch of the earth is a labatory. The problem with creationism always is: what created the creator? I think : intelligence = learning. learning needs 4 things: 1. experimentation 2. judgement : are the results good or bad 3. storage of results 4. future actions consider stored results (avoid errors) Our DNA is stored “intelligence” .
David: It’s not that randomness couldn’t produce an eye—it could. How is randomness a cause? How does it explain anything? It’s like saying I took the subway today because i happened to walk by it. There’s no way to know if I’ll take it tomorrow, because I might not walk by it. A useless theory.
It also has the advantage that randomness + time can “explain” anything. No matter what. It’s a lot like global warming. Every single outcome fits the theory. Again, a useless theory. I find in both cases the evidence is bent to the theory, rather than the theory being driven by the evidence.
Note: One can reject evolution as a viable, useful theory without needing a replacement theory, just as one can reject global warming caused by CO2 with a replacement theory.
The problem is how to create an eye, with every step along the evolutionary path being more advantageous than the previous.
You can throw a bunch of extra neuron’s into the cranial cavity, but unless they are actually doing something useful, then the cost of supporting those neuron’s biologically comes with no benefit and the organism with the extra neuron’s will suffer at a disadvantage.
Substructures needed for the development of the eye, each need to perform a biological useful function, otherwise they are a cost with no benefit.
David,
You said, “And every inch of the earth is a labatory.” Did you mean “lavatory?” 🙂
The longer the time frame, the more opportunity for finding intermediate examples of eye development. I am not aware of any findings of partially developed eyeballs thereby proving that evolution was behind the changes.
@richard verney: Do we currently have greater brain power than humans of the bronze age? I suspect that if you could transport an ancient Egyptian baby to the present and provide a modern education, you would not find any significant mental deficiency. We may know a lot more now, but that doesn’t mean we’re smarter. Evolution works on much longer time scales to produce most significant changes.
Research in Galapagos Is. has shown that natural selection can and does operate very quickly. Changes can be noticed in even the next generation of finches. Randomness is not necessary to natural selection, only variation within species. Variations that help the survival of the fittest will become more common. Much longer time scales are just not required to produce significant changes. That’s not to say that long time frames don’t produce changes, but it isn’t required for evolution.
‘Green Cronyism Gone Wild: It Looks Like The State Of California Is Bailing Out Tesla’
“The California state Assembly passed a $3-billion subsidy program for electric vehicles, dwarfing the existing program. The bill is now in the state Senate. If passed, it will head to Governor Jerry Brown, who has not yet indicated if he’d sign what is ostensibly an effort to put EV sales into high gear, but below the surface appears to be a Tesla bailout…..
https://www.thegwpf.com/green-cronyism-gone-wild-it-looks-like-the-state-of-california-is-bailing-out-tesla/
Well, looking at the bright side: Californias may still have some savings left to pimp their tax-subsidised planned economy produce.
Brown thinks he’s the climate Messiah. The only thing exceeding his stupidity is his ego and the stupidity of the people that enable him.
Yet he’s destroying Wyoming with thousands of those idiot bird killers. His ability to spread stupidity has long reaching tentacles. Don’t think his damage is confined to California. He may be coming soon to a state near you.
“….He may be coming soon to a state near you…” He can’t get any closer, I live there. Over the years Brown has moved from Moderate Left to Progressive and become more shrill and psychotic as his last term nears end. Progressives really believe they are saving the world with Socialism and he’s no exception. CAGW is their chance at infamy and they won’t let go.
markl: You have my sympathy. It’s bad enough being California’s dumping ground here. I can’t imagine trying to survive in California.
Why don’t we start our own scare. The dangers of time travel. Just pretend it’s possible and in fact already being done and start a protest movement about it.
I’m trying to remember which Star Trek movie had the Enterprise crew going back in time to rescue the humpback whales.
In that movie, in order to buy the Plexiglas they needed to build the tanks, Scotty gave the engineer at the plant the formula for transparent aluminum.
The book goes a little deeper into this incident.
As they walk out of the plant, McCoy asks Scotty about messing with history. Scotty replies that according to the history books, the guy who is credited with inventing transparent aluminum just happens to have the same name as the engineer they were talking to.
If true, where did the formula for transparent aluminum actually come from?
Check with Vuk, he probably has the formula for that.
Hi Tom, transparent ‘aluminum’ is an old hat, my formula is for the invisible aluminium, number of real estate agents are actively marketing the product.
The information in the history books was from Wikipedia. Need I say more?
Not scary enough. Too easily worked around. Too complicated and gives people headaches. You need something simple—like the Earth’s supply of water is leaking out the ozone hole and we’ll be a dry, dead planet in x number of years if we don’t close the ozone hole.
Right on topic:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/robot-security-guard-kill-itself-washington-dc-pond-drive-into-georgetown-waterfront-shopping-centre-a7846641.html
I’ve got a better scare story which should replace the AGW scam – millions of people worldwide are having to suffer ill-health, poverty and premature death together with being denied decent progress because of a lie concocted by environmentalists and conscience free entrepreneurs who know an opportunity to steal billions when they see one. Oh wait, that’ s actually happening assisted by the mainstream media, neo-colonialists and profoundly ignorant or corrupt politicians worldwide.
The robot that threw itself into the pool might have done so if it became momentarily sentient and aware of this criminal scam, finding it couldn’t live with its embryonic conscience – clearly making it ahead of all too many climate scientists who clearly don’t care for the harm they doing to the voiceless.
Sorry if that sounds too bitter.
Artificial Super Intelligence is not “like any other new technology”. It is an obvious game-changer for all technologies, many of which our lives are now dependent upon, and if not well controlled it certainly has many obvious risks associated with it as well as risks we don’t know about. It is a lot bigger potential threat to humanity than CO2.
AI is not like a switch, one day it’s not here, the next day it is.
We will gradually get smarter and smarter computers that are capable of doing more and more.
We will have plenty of time to adopt, and if we ever do get true AI, most people won’t even notice the difference.
Elon, was that the scariest you could think? How about this: the granddaughter of Gaia and Tartarus, the Green Lernaean Hydra, has regenerated two new heads replacing the one lost
Computers aren’t really intelligent. They only think they are.
Made in the image of their master, then?
That robots can replace humans in the work force is a given.
As robots improve in quality and price, the number of jobs they can replace will increase.
If 1/10th the money that is being spent on CO2 reductions were to be spent on re-education, this problem could be solved before it starts.
MarkW, what sort of re-education do you think is appropriate?
Something that teaches useful skills.
“Elon Musk is certain that robots will be able to do your job better than you … ”
I seem to recall that we have seen this stuff before. “Expert Systems” anyone?
You encapsulate in a computer program all the stages and processes that the expert goes through to come up with a recommendation, a likelihood that a valuable resource can be extracted etc etc. Then you use the software for a lot of the tasks performed by the expert, so he/she can do more in the way of development work, research etc. (Or more likely, you don’t have to go on paying them, you aren’t in trouble if they retire, or go dippy and start making mistakes etc.) The trouble was, the experts being processed in this way were good at seeming to be cooperative, but always managed to skip over vital steps in the process. I thought this was intentional, self-preservation, Then it came to my turn to fully document some of the processes I was expert in, that I was more than happy to turn over to an expert system as I was tired of doing the stuff, but I was no better at describing the processes.
Elon has thrived on the Malthusian fear that we are destroying the planet and should therefore make absurd and costly “investments” in “green” initiatives to fend off this dystopian future.
The problem is reality is observable by even the dullest of the peons:
The ice is still here
Crop production is higher
Climate change is imperceptible, and the CO2 theory is failing to pass the smell test
“Green” utopias (like South Australia) are far from the rosy picture promised
Under four years of the new administration, a robust economy and sound energy policy will lay the fraud bare for everyone.
What is a Malthusian priest like Elon to do?
Simple. Replace “climate” with “AI”. Climb upon his donkey and start his Quixotic march against those scary machines. Gov. Moonbeam can be easily persuaded to shell a few billion Elon’s way and the new religion is born.