The Seasteading Institute

Reply To: FSP and seasteading

Hey there! I too tend to bite off more than I can chew. This is also something I'm working on.. learning to say "no" to people and to myself. However I'm in my mid 20s with no children.. your considering seasteading at all is to be commended. I sincerely hope this lifestyle can be made as similar to one on land (at least for the things that are desirable) so it can appeal to the broadest possible segment of the population.

I think you'll find a number of FSP participants on this forum. After all, those willing to pick up their lives and go live on a tiny floating scrap of metal in the middle of the ocean in an effort to escape political pressures are probably willing to relocate to New Hampshire, United States of America :)

Of course, even though the goal of those FSP seasteaders are mostly the same in both instances, they are probably correct in seeing seasteading as the final destination and the FSP as an intermediary one.

For one, as you mentioned, the FSP won't reach critical mass for a while. There are a number of efforts underway to make people move sooner rather than later, but from what I've seen it's still very slow (although I should be there by the end of the year and haven't signed anything yet.. so the numbers are definitely not accurate). It is being said that even a small number of core activists is making a difference there.. personally I haven't seen much to back that up yet (a lot of anti-freedom legislation has been passed since I first heard that one.. and more is coming). They might be slowing it down to some extent.. and at least they're very active and committed. But eventually they have this huge huge huge problem we won't have to deal with on a seastead (namely an existing population with values mostly hostile to our own).

Changing people is much more difficult and time intensive than re-shaping one's environment. I think Patri put it best: changing a political problem into an engineering one!

Even though I am less than thrilled by the prospects of living in the middle of the ocean on the aforementioned scrap of metal that somehow sticks out of the sea... I still believe it to be my best shot at "liberty in our lifetime".