seasteading blog

I have a follow-up essay at Cato Unbound, THE IMPORTANCE AND LIMITATIONS OF GROUNDWORK.

The implication of a “long, slow…slog” are a line that is slowly and steadily trending upwards. If someone has such a line for the libertarian movement, I would love to see it, but I do not believe it is an accurate assessment of our history.

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With that said, here is a critical difference between an inchoate individualist mass and an organized, self-identified group.

April 15th, 2009 – Palo Alto, CA — The Seasteading Institute Announces Membership Program; Annual Report

As TSI grows, we plan to split off blogs by topic, so that people interested in political theory don’t have to read about engineering details, and vice-versa. As the first such forking, I am going to be spinning off the dynamic geography related posts from here to a new blog. It will be about the topic area which contains federalism, seasteading, anarcho-capitalism, Mencius Moldbug, tax competition between nations, and other structural reforms to improve competition between government.

Gossip Bar, 2nd floor, 9th ave between 49th and 50th. Till 11 or 12 local time.

We’re looking for quotes for the front page that capture the essence of seasteading. Things like:

• “If you want to build a ship, do not drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – André Gide
• I am interested in politics so that someday I will not have to be interested in politics. – Unknown

Please comment here with your ideas.

Robin Hanson on the locality assumption:

Mountain View, CA, August 18th, 2008.

Mountain View, CA, August 18th, 2008.

My right arm got overly excited by this whole microstate concept earlier today, and seceded from its socket.  While it has been forcibly reunited with its fatherland, it was weakened by the attempted rebellion, and as a result I’m going to be a one handed typist for a week or three.  Obviously this means you should expect less blogging and not much in the way of replying to emails.  I may pass off some projects to other people in the interim, we’ll see.  Hopefully I can find some good typing-less work to do, like catching up on some background reading.