Yeah I’m very frustrated about the way governments are structured in general. Couldn’t we buy some land somewhere from some country to found our own country? Perhaps some place in (say) Canada with an area of (say) Tokyo, where almost nobody lives and we could just raise towns the way we like? Does anyone know if sth like this is possible?
(I mean, we have some money and maybe could get other billionares (or other people who would like to live there) to support the project. Being able to write the rules ourselves and design cities from the start opens up so many nice opportunities. We could build a such awesome place to live in and offer many people or companies benefits, so it might actually be a great financial investment. (Though I admit I’m not being very concrete and perhaps a bit overly optimistic, but I do think much would be possible.) We could almost live like in dath ilan (except that earth people wouldn’t think in such nice ways as dath ilanis). (I’m aware that I’m probably just dreaming up an alternate optimistic reality, but I think it’s at least worth checking if it is possible, and if so to seriously consider it, though it would take a lot of time and it’s not clear if it would be worth it, given that AGI may come relatively soon.))
For what it’s worth there was an old libertarian attempt at creating such an outcome. Never seems to have realized its goal that I am aware of. Buying an island somewhere or creating a floating city were the two main approaches I am aware of having been placed on the table.
That’s been tried a few times with some mixed successes and some outright failures. Something that hasn’t been thoroughly tried (to my knowledge) is actually making a distributed governance system within / on-top-of existing governments. We can’t subtract laws or taxes or currencies, but we can add them. What if we tried making a distributed government with its own currency and governance system and some additional laws. It’s a way to test out some theories in a low-risk, low-startup-cost scenario, and could be fun. If the government starts out with a small budget per member, and limited responsibilities, it could be pretty low-pressure to get right on the first try.
Yeah I’m very frustrated about the way governments are structured in general. Couldn’t we buy some land somewhere from some country to found our own country? Perhaps some place in (say) Canada with an area of (say) Tokyo, where almost nobody lives and we could just raise towns the way we like? Does anyone know if sth like this is possible?
(I mean, we have some money and maybe could get other billionares (or other people who would like to live there) to support the project. Being able to write the rules ourselves and design cities from the start opens up so many nice opportunities. We could build a such awesome place to live in and offer many people or companies benefits, so it might actually be a great financial investment. (Though I admit I’m not being very concrete and perhaps a bit overly optimistic, but I do think much would be possible.) We could almost live like in dath ilan (except that earth people wouldn’t think in such nice ways as dath ilanis). (I’m aware that I’m probably just dreaming up an alternate optimistic reality, but I think it’s at least worth checking if it is possible, and if so to seriously consider it, though it would take a lot of time and it’s not clear if it would be worth it, given that AGI may come relatively soon.))
For what it’s worth there was an old libertarian attempt at creating such an outcome. Never seems to have realized its goal that I am aware of. Buying an island somewhere or creating a floating city were the two main approaches I am aware of having been placed on the table.
That’s been tried a few times with some mixed successes and some outright failures. Something that hasn’t been thoroughly tried (to my knowledge) is actually making a distributed governance system within / on-top-of existing governments. We can’t subtract laws or taxes or currencies, but we can add them. What if we tried making a distributed government with its own currency and governance system and some additional laws. It’s a way to test out some theories in a low-risk, low-startup-cost scenario, and could be fun. If the government starts out with a small budget per member, and limited responsibilities, it could be pretty low-pressure to get right on the first try.