Редактирование: Technolibertarianism (раздел)

== Technolibertarianism explained ==

The technolibertarian view is a near direct opposite of the [[technoconservatism | technoconservative]] one. Whereas the technoconservatives say “stop – this is going too fast”, technolibertarians say “go faster”.

It’s not that technolibertarians are blind to the threats which cause so much concern to the technoconservatives. On the whole, they’re well aware of these threats. However, they believe that technology, given a free hand, will solve these problems. Technoconservatives, in this analysis, are becoming unnecessarily anxious. As opposed to the [[Precautionary Principle]] of Technoconservative Luddites, technolibertarians promote the [[Proactionary Principle]] first formulated by Extropian [[Max More]] which ensures a balanced appreciation of risks and opportunity costs of inaction.

For example, excess greenhouse gases may well be sucked out of the atmosphere by clever carbon capture systems, perhaps involving specially engineered bio-organisms. In any case, green energy sources – potentially including solar, geothermal, biofuels, and nuclear – will soon become cheaper than (and therefore fully preferable to) carbon-based fuels. As for problems with weaponry falling into the wrong hands, suitable defence technology could be created. Declines in biodiversity could be countered by Jurassic Park style technology for species resurrection. Ample fresh water can be generated by desalination processes from sea water, with the energy to achieve this transformation being obtained from the sun. And so on.

The main request of technolibertarians to politicians is “hands off”. They want government to provide a free rein to smart scientists, hard-working technologists, and innovative entrepreneurs – a free rein to pursue their ideas for new products. It is these forces, they say, which will produce the solutions to society’s current problems.

Technolibertarians echo [http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan-quotes-detail.aspx?tx=2079 the sentiment of Ronald Reagan] that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Governments suffer, in this view, from a number of deep-rooted problems:

* Politicians seek to build empires, seeking to agglomerate power in centralized hierarchical organizations, despite the tendency of such organisations to ossify and to exhibit fragility and immobility in the face of rapid change.
* Politicians have little understanding of the latest technologies, and prefer to legislate/regulate against them in order to protect established interests.
* Politicians generally impose outdated regulations – which are concerned with yesterday’s problems rather than with tomorrow’s opportunities.
* Regulators are liable to “capture” – an over-influence from vested interests; they are more prone to capture when more power is concentrated in larger bureaucracies.
* Politicians have no inherent ability to pick winners.
* Political spending builds a momentum of its own, behind “white elephant” projects.

The technolibertarian recipe to solve social problems, therefore, is technology plus innovation plus free markets, minus intrusive regulations, and minus government interference. The role of government should be minimised – perhaps even privatised.

Technolibertarians see the free market as a powerful computer which is more capable than any governmental system to determine the best allocation of resources and the fitness of new technologies. They argue that the [[free market]] is a massively multi parallel neural network supercomputer [[AI]] that spans all of human civilization, which as a result is always capable of determining the most efficient allocations of resources to achieve the best solutions to problems. Any smaller group of persons that attempts to make decisions by centralized processes is not only less powerful than the free market AI, but will just be a subset of the free market AI's processing capacity, and therefore can never outperform the free market in making better decisions.

Centralized groups, like governments, can be privatized through [[blockchain]]s to function better as more decentralized, transparent systems that can prevent a lot of the corruption inherent in centralized systems. This is why blockchain technology was invented by technolibertarian Extropians [http://www.wired.com/2014/08/hal-finney/ such as Hal Finney] in the past decade.