I’m not sure I agree that free energy does solve every problem.

If anything I’d expect it to unleash a new wave of problems that we will have to handle.

The current AI debate is a good example of this. The groups wanting a moratorium or bans are the same who would have thwarted nuclear in the past. They ONLY see the potential bad outcomes and catastrophise everything to the extremes - they can’t tell you HOW AI will end humanity but they are sure it will so we just shouldn’t try and instead let’s regulate it and control it and limit it and make it the domain of the state..

It’s likely problems will manifest specifically because of the course of action the central planners / statists insist upon (no-one thinks it’s a good idea to train ChatGPT to be woke) and they’ll never factor in how their efforts led to those mistakes. Same could be said of nuclear.

This is why we need proper free markets and the death of the state as we know it. Problems will arise, people will work out how to solve them but having arbitrary rules interfere has a distortion effect that we can’t truly reconcile.

Humanity needs these struggles to progress, not fake made up climate change and systemic racism bullshit to focus brainwashed children on - technologies which will progress us as a species and make us flourish all the more, regardless of what challenges they throw up for us to address.