I mentioned in my reply to Raemon how this can be seen as three factors:
the amount it will influence global policy makers as a function of location
the amount of locals who will show up as a function of location
the amount of people who would travel a long distance to show up as a function of location
And we could maybe do better by drawing people in if the location scores highly both for function 1 and function 3. So maybe trying to focus on central locations that are easy to travel to, and either cheap, or pleasant to travel to. I think focusing on cheap and central, maybe a town where a big data center has been built would send a good message. On the other hand, focusing on pleasant, maybe vacation destinations popular with policy people is the way to go. Tropical beaches where people from around the world go to enjoy the weather spring to mind. I don’t know if this line of thinking is fruitful or not. Probably DC is the conventional location to stage a mass protest for a reason, but maybe not.
On the other hand, I think there is something to the idea of having distributed protesting… Maybe lots of smaller thresholds for individual cities, and then some threshold for number of cities. It’s getting a bit complicated, but would it still send a message if a significant population protested in a significant number of cities around the world?
I mentioned in my reply to Raemon how this can be seen as three factors:
the amount it will influence global policy makers as a function of location
the amount of locals who will show up as a function of location
the amount of people who would travel a long distance to show up as a function of location
And we could maybe do better by drawing people in if the location scores highly both for function 1 and function 3. So maybe trying to focus on central locations that are easy to travel to, and either cheap, or pleasant to travel to. I think focusing on cheap and central, maybe a town where a big data center has been built would send a good message. On the other hand, focusing on pleasant, maybe vacation destinations popular with policy people is the way to go. Tropical beaches where people from around the world go to enjoy the weather spring to mind. I don’t know if this line of thinking is fruitful or not. Probably DC is the conventional location to stage a mass protest for a reason, but maybe not.
On the other hand, I think there is something to the idea of having distributed protesting… Maybe lots of smaller thresholds for individual cities, and then some threshold for number of cities. It’s getting a bit complicated, but would it still send a message if a significant population protested in a significant number of cities around the world?