Podcast: Play in new window | Download Seasteading emerged from shared belief that applying philosophy to practical action requires exiting most accepted institutions. I thought it was about time I turned on the recorder to capture one of these conversations. Mike Gibson and Reid Spitz started as philosophy students and became venture capitalists and staunch seasteaders. Can philosophy igniteRead more
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A [recent article in Slate.com](http://www.slate.com/id/2271265/) characterized seasteading thus:
> Seasteading, a movement to create law-free floating communes based on voluntary association. Led by Milton Friedman’s pajama-wearing grandson, this may be the most elaborate effort ever devised by a group of computer nerds to get invited to an orgy.
Alex Tabarrok writes:
Competitive law appears to increase efficiency but it’s less clear that competition among governments gives rise to a libertarian world. Homeowner associations, for example, often impose stricter zoning regulations than cities. You could say that the system as a whole is more libertarian, but no one lives in the system as a whole.
(this will go into the book beta, in the Review section)
Here is a comment on a floating city post somewhere on the internet that represents, to me, exactly what is not needed to advance the movement: