seasteading blog

If you ever feel like purchasing gifts for TSI and our Seasteading Book Library, here is my seasteading wish list on Amazon:

If any of these books interest you, one option would be to buy it, read it, and then donate it to us when you are finished.

Their plans are inspired by the ethos of the modern tech industry, where grand quixotic visions are as common as BlackBerrys, and they see their task not as a holy mission but as something like a startup.

This is not fiction. It is happening now…

The Seasteading Institute has crowned the winners in its first Seasteading Architectural Design Contest. The Contest, which ran from February 1st to May 1st, invited participants to design the floating city of their dreams. The winning design was awarded a $1000 grand prize, and there were four additional $250 prizes for specific categories.

Seasteads are permanent, stationary structures specifically designed for long-term ocean living.

While I don’t agree with his evaluation of seasteading, Mencius Moldbug is one of the major bloggers advocating for a world of competing private governments, so it is great to see him engage with our ideas (as well as wielding his characteristic wit against democrophilia).