Eliezer writes on Overcoming Bias:

One of the primary principles of evolutionary psychology is that "Our modern skulls house a stone age mind" (saith Tooby and Cosmides).  You can interpret all sorts of angst as the friction of a stone age mind rubbing against a modern world that isn't like the hunter-gatherer environment the brain evolved to handle.

 Here's a new section from the book beta, a topic I've been enthusing about recently.  Comments are welcome, as are pointers to any existing open-source projects which are similar to the idea.  If there are no such projects, well, someone should get cracking on writing one!  Oh, and if someone wants to make the logo described, that would be cool too :) (thanks to krustad for the logo).

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  • Added a box to the front page listing upcoming GTGs, with a module that automatically parses our Meetup.com Calendar.  Yay for standards that let web services play nicely together!
  • The German magazine Cicero: "Magazin Für Politische Kultur" is interested in doing an in-depth story this fall.
  • Please use the wiki to keep technical notes after a discussion!
    

I've been adding more about the importance of having a frontier to the revised book (Polycentric order also has a post about this).  Here is one of the new sections:

Consider people who:

1. Are unhappy with the current state of society.
2. Have a specific vision of what a better society for them would look like.
3. Are interested in building their lives around that vision

I'm expanding the FAQ to answer some of the comments made on the Marginal Revolution post, and I decide to start with a couple answers I should have written up long ago, because they are so frequently needed:

(Another new snippet from the book beta, inspired by a lunch conversation today.)

When talking about how we'd like to revolutionize the governing industry, we used the metaphor that we'd like government to be more like the internet industry than operating systems.  One of the properties of the internet is that it is based on a variety of open standards which allow many diverse programs, companies, machines, and people to interoperate.  We'd like seasteads to have this property also.

(This is a small new section for the book beta.  I will frequently post such sections as writing progress on the book continues.  Comments welcome.)

(this will go into the book beta, in the Review section)

Here is a comment on a floating city post somewhere on the internet that represents, to me, exactly what is not needed to advance the movement: