News
Will Chamberlain – Thinking Structurally About Government
Will Chamberlain’s talk at the second annual Seasteading Conference, “Thinking Structurally About Government”, is now available online:
Engineering Parallels Between Ephemerisle & Seasteading
There are a wide variety of opinions in the seasteading community about whether Ephemerisle is a plausible path to full seasteading. Here’s my pre-event pitch of why Ephemerisle is useful. Post-event, I have an additional thought.
Our Ephemerisle structure and setup basically worked as plan, with a few exceptions. One is that it took longer than we expected, and was not completed by the noon Friday starting time (although everything did come together for Saturday evening).
Dominique Roddier – Clubstead Engineering
Dominique Roddier’s presentation on Clubstead Engineering from the second annual Seasteading Conference is now available online:
James is ready to move!
TSI Director of Operations James Hogan heads to the ocean (well, Shoreline Lake) in this fun image from a recent TSI staff photoshoot.
Ephemerisle
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Jorge Schmidt – Legal Aspects of Seasteading
Jorge Schmidt’s presentation of research on the legal aspects of seasteading is now available online:
Ephemerisle Documentary
Just in case you haven’t seen it yet on one of other feeds, check out the awesome 9-minute documentary Jason Sussberg made about Ephemerisle:
M.U.L.E. – steading
Peter Boothe writes about this classic computer game from the mid-80s:
a nonviolent economics game with both zero-sum and positive-sum aspects where people compete to be the best possible homesteaders in a scifi environment made me think of you. The game is quite fun, and I recommend it.
The game can be downloaded free, and played online. Enjoy!
Engineering talk
The talk I held at the 2009 Seasteading conference is up! Thanks everyone who was there, for the interesting discussions we have had afterwards.
Some comments on the then and now: I unfortunately no longer have the confidence in this concept I had back then, for the reasons explained below:
