The Seasteading Institute

The Seasteading Institute – July 2011 Newsletter

Greetings Friends of Seasteading,

Our vision for seasteading is to improve government through competition, and my personal talents […]

Our previous blog was http://seasteading.livejournal.com/, which has many years of old content. We will no longer be updating it, but it has some interesting discussions.

Introduction

This paragraph has been added in the second revision, and as such, should appear in the “diff” section, right?

This is the placeholder page for the seasteading book version 1.0b, which is being written in 2008. It is very rough, and not yet fully integrated into Drupal.

We recommend you read the earlier alpha draft.

Mark Twain: “Buy land. They’ve stopped making it.”
Seasteaders: “Memo: Production Resuming.”
In this paper, we’ll demonstrate that a combination of
technologies has finally given the lie to Mark Twain’s […]

It seems quite likely that our large sea-cities will be free-floating, for various reasons. First, there are not very many seamounts to anchor to in international waters ( 200nm from any place a rock sticks its […]

Organization Aims To Create New Societies On The Ocean Mountain View, CA, April 15th, 2008.The Seasteading Institute today announced that it has been established in order to establish permanent, autonomous ocean […]

My right arm got overly excited by this whole microstate concept earlier today, and seceded from its socket.  While it has been forcibly reunited with its fatherland, it was weakened by the attempted rebellion, […]

Mountain View, CA, August 18th, 2008. If the Seasteading Institute has its way, you will soon be able to relocate your house–or even your entire town–as easily as you move your car.   "We are going to build […]

Robin Hanson on the locality assumption:

Similarly, people seem to make lots of assumptions when they refer to "full-scale nanotechnology." This phrase seems to elicit images of fridge sized home appliances that, […]

Mountain View, CA, August 18th, 2008. Despite the recent downturn in real estate, the cost of a new home in many parts of the country remains beyond the reach of many people.  For example, the median home price in […]

Palo Alto, CA. – Feb. 2nd, 2009 – The Seasteading Institute Announces Architectural Design Contest for Seasteads
The Seasteading Institute announced an open contest today which gives architects, engineers, […]

We’re looking for quotes for the front page that capture the essence of seasteading. Things like:

* “If you want to build a ship, do not drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, […]

Gossip Bar, 2nd floor, 9th ave between 49th and 50th. Till 11 or 12 local time.

April 15th, 2009 – Palo Alto, CA — The Seasteading Institute Announces Membership Program; Annual Report

The Seasteading Institute announced its new membership program today, inviting enthusiasts to become a […]

As TSI grows, we plan to split off blogs by topic, so that people interested in political theory don’t have to read about engineering details, and vice-versa. As the first such forking, I am going to be spinning […]