My latest views on popups, network states, coordi-nations, zones, and where all of these things could lead us.(Long poast)https://t.co/g0kIWwiV59 ...

China has many cities that specialize in specific products. Like Detroit for cars, they have Cixi for hair dryers, Wenzhou for lighters, and Ningbo for home appliances.We’re familiar with this idea for cultural sectors, like NYC/Shanghai for finance, Silicon Valley/Shenzhen for tech, DC/Beijing for politics, and Hollywood/Hengdian for movies.But of course spatial concentration works for many industries. We’ve written about this already for drone zones and biotech boroughs, but specializing around an *existi ...

This is actually already happening, as there are 250,000+ Brits in the UAE alone. It is also why we will see startup societies and network states. https://t.co/BAObgJ8zD3Marko Jukic (@mmjukic):As bad as things get, we know we are nowhere close to the bottom so long as there isn't mass emigration of Western citizens to safe foreign countries. This will likely happen, so we have a ways to go. Imagine Western immigrant communities in Dubai, China, Albania, El Salvador... ...

Network State & Colonialism - Network state exit libertarians are not the primary source of large-scale colonialist evil observed recently [1] - The "exit" position, where individuals create new systems if they disagree with existing ones, is a robust approach with localized and bounded negative consequences [1] - The potential negative consequences of individual actions are inherently limited, even with global reach via the internet [1] Libertarianism & Political Influence - The industry should be kinder to the "exit" position going forward [2] - Evil has recently come from libertarians, notably from political lobbying [2] - The industry opposes "bad deregulation" (eg, AGI/ASI) and deregulation regardless of side effects [2] - The individuals involved in negative actions are specifically not the "exit" faction [2] AI & Global Impact - AI doom will not originate from isolated locations like islands or boats in international waters [1] - Some former libertarians are now focused on taking over existing governments, which carries significant downsides [1]