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Peter Diamandis

American entrepreneur and futurist

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Founded the XPRIZE and argues in Abundance that fast-improving technologies will soon be able to meet everyone’s basic needs.

Peter Diamandis sits in the right-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: leaning free market and leaning libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly tech-optimist on technology, strongly globalist on nation and leaning free market on economy. The profile is close to the middle on institutions.

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Where Peter Diamandis sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyLeaning free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsCentered on institutions
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismSlightly non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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Political views closest to Peter Diamandis

Effective accelerationismArgues that rapid technological progress, especially in AI and energy, is the best path…96%Classical liberalismIndividual rights, limited government, free markets and the rule of law.96%TranshumanismWants to use technology to extend human abilities and lifespans, with strong freedom…95%Techno-libertarianismBelieves that digital technology, encryption and open markets can shrink the state and…95%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Brassfield, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.