I’ve decided I’m going to a conference in Durham (NE UK, close to Scotland) April 1-3. I will probably hit London for a couple days afterwards. I would very much like to give one or more seastead talks while I am in London – or at the very least, do a meetup at a pub. Anyone in London who’d be interested in helping me arrange something? Email .
We’re looking for quotes for the front page that capture the essence of seasteading. Things like:
Please comment here with your ideas.
Some nice dialogue has developed around Jacob Lyles’ structuralism posts, which I mentioned in the recent Structure and Policy post.
Liz has posted a poll about our online presence and ways of communicating on the seastead LJ community, please fill it out! (You don’t need an LJ account to do so).
Happy New Year! We here at The Seasteading Institute have been working hard over the holidays to ensure that future years have more hope and possibility for innovative societies than past ones. Here’s what we did in December:
I will be making a number of trips in 2009 for TSI-related business and speaking engagements, and I need your help to maximize the number of people I can meet and reach on each of these trips. There are two major ways you can help:
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.
I was recently asked: “Is the plan still to have no rules during Ephemerisle, or does having it in the SF bay mean that there will have to be some rules?”
I replied:
There will definitely have to be rules based on US safety laws / Coast Guard regulations. There may be other rules as well.
Liz has already started to revamp and expand our online presence. Check out the community page, which now has links to:
