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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

wait that's it? he wants to "replace" states with (vr) groupchats on blockchain? it can't be this stupid, you must be explaining this wrong (i know, i know, saying it's just that makes it look way more sane than it is)

The basic problem here is that Balaji is remarkably incurious about what states actually do and what they are for.

libertarians are like house cats etc etc

In practice, it's a formula for letting all the wealthy elites within your territorial borders opt out of paying taxes and obeying laws. And he expects governments will be just fine with this because… innovation.

this is some sovereign citizen type shit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

yeah shillrinivan's ideas are extremely Statisism: Sims Edition

I've also seen essentially ~0 thinking from any of them on how to treat corner cases and all that weird messy human conflict shit. but code is law! rah!

(pretty sure that if his unearned timing-fortunes ever got threatened by some coin contract gap or whatever, he'd instantly be all over getting that shit blocked)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

code is law, as in, who controls the code controls the law. the obvious thing would be that monied founders would control the entire thing, like in urbit. i still want to see how well cyber hornets defend against tank rounds, or who gets to get inside tank for that matter, or how do you put tank on a blockchain. or how real states make it so that you can have citizenship of only one state, maybe two. there's nothing about it there

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Some kind of Civ4-ass tech tree lets you get the Internet before replaceable parts or economics.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

or how real states make it so that you can have citizenship of only one state, maybe two. there's nothing about it there

come on we both know it’ll be github badges or something like that