Balaji Srinivasan

That sounds like it would lead to Corpo-feudalism, aka techno-feudalism. Some billionaires are working to accomplish this. https://thebaffler.com/latest/mouthbreathing-machiavellis https://thenetworkstate.com/

this is an interesting read: https://thenetworkstate.com/book/tns.pdf I'm guessing its what all the fuss is about? sure sounds like a great idea, at least for the ones who are hooked into said network right?

Anecdotally, most people interested in The Network State [0] are nones. Perhaps that could be a "place" to aggregate them (us)? [0]: https://thenetworkstate.com/

I guess Network States span the range between 3 and 4 for now. https://thenetworkstate.com/ https://cocohub.io/manifesto https://www.protocol.com/policy/srinivasan-network-state

"if Bitcoin goes to $1M, Balaji gave up the opportunity to buy 37 BTC at a price of $27,000. He will thus wind up winning 1 BTC but losing 37 BTC" but that's not really losing the big picture. If BTC goes to $1M in the next 90 days https://thenetworkstate.com/ is happening!

First page of search results for "remittance" & "crypto" has numerous examples. At random, here's a referenced article covering Africa, South America & Asia: https://thenetworkstate.com/crypto-remittances I invite you to use the amazing powers we have at our fingertips to find them yourself, and understand why something valued at two pizzas 13 years ago just had its max institutional hold increased from 1% to 2% by the BIS: https://investing.com/news/cryptocurrency-news/bis-allows-banks-to-hol…

> I'm curious if he is expecting an anarcho-capitalism type system or he's predicting wildwest/dystopian. I believe he likens it to BLM Riots:Jan 6 every day, type of dystopia. > I am intrigued about the cloud country. It almost feels like Estonia might be that place? Or perhaps their attempt? He is super bullish on Estonia, IIRC. The Network State is free as a PDF or to read online if you're interested: https://thenetworkstate.com/

I assume this is an attempt at an implementation of Balaji Srinivasan's Network State idea: https://thenetworkstate.com/

Manifesto here: [https://thenetworkstate.com/on-network-states]

The mechanics of regulation will guarantee that the government gets to read all your email. https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1397773092169031693 https://thenetworkstate.com/god-state-network#negative-syntheses-usg-c…

Hi friend, Consider checking out one of these network states: https://thenetworkstate.com/dashboard

Balajis new book "Network State" has an entire chapter on stuff like this: https://thenetworkstate.com/if-the-news-is-fake-imagine-history List of stuff he points out: https://thenetworkstate.com/if-the-news-is-fake-imagine-history#distor…

> Succeed at what? Dismantling government. Look up the "network state": * https://thenetworkstate.com/preamble > All of these men see themselves as the heroes or protagonists in their own sci-fi saga. And a key part of being a “technological superman” — or ubermensch, as the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche would say — is that you’re above the law. Common-sense morality doesn’t apply to you because you’re a superior being on a superior mission. Thiel, it should be noted, is a big Nietzsche fan, though his is an extremely selective reading of the philosopher’s work. > The ubermensch ideology helps explain the broligarchs’ disturbing gender politics. “The ‘bro’ part of broligarch is not incidental to this — it’s built on this idea that not only are these guys superior, they are superior because they’re guys,” Harrington said. […] > The so-called network state is “a fancy name for tech authoritarianism,” journalist Gil Duran, who has spent the past year reporting on these building projects, told me. “The idea is to build power over the long term by controlling money, politics, technology, and land.” * https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/395646/trump-inauguration-broligarc… Also: * "Why big tech turned right": https://www.vox.com/politics/397525/trump-big-tech-musk-bezos-zuckerbe… * "The crypto bros who dream of crowdfunding a new country": https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyl171lyewo Have you ever read cyberpunk,…