I almost overlooked our friends in San Diego had an interesting session this month about Seasteading.
Land is taken, let's create land on the sea. In modular structures, that can be linked together to form a community. Advantage: If you don't like the politics or gasp the taxes of your current society, you pull up your seastead and float it over to where the sea is greener.
Seastead.org has a bit strong libertarian bend for my taste, but to create the possibility to form tons of new kinds of societies in short order, the bad ones easily weeded out through voting by floating with your seastead would be an enormous positive spiral for humanity.
It's a pity that Jessica Richman is leaving San Diego, I hope someone else continues her excellent work. It is enormously gratifying to bring smart people together to talk about the future and having fun while doing it. I hope someone, or even better a group of people picks it up.
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