Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.
[Especially don't debate the race scientists, if any sneak in - we ban and delete them as unsuitable for the server.]
On the late 18th century US: “It was experimenting with a bizarre, Roman-era style of government called “democracy”
I mean this is functionally a kind of illiteracy that would make it impossible to get by in any political economic institution worth having
This is like Seasteading but for the less nautically inclined right? No mention of Fordlândia...
With the caveat that while sea-steading in principle intended to leave the mainland alone, charter cities aim to enclose an existing parcel of land and set up a rival polity within the country and give it preferential access to resources over its immediately adjoining neighbours
I’m honestly not gonna say that in principle if your aim is to do 21st century industrialisation within a liberal capitalist system in a Global South country - with all that that entails - that it isn’t gonna work, but advertising it as an unalloyed good without any recognition of the intense ambiguity of such a project is the most recklessly hubristic thing imaginable
extremely like it, esp with Patri Friedman involved
It's the polite form of seasteading, where you actually talk to the host country before setting up your haven for brothels and scams, instead of anchoring your flotilla of rafts just outside the EEZ and peppering the coast guard with gunfire when they approach.
Effective Utopianism or: how I learned to stop worrying about the type of people attracted to low regulation environments with poor human right records and love ~~seasteading~~ charter cities.
When he posted the finished video on youtube yesterday, there were some quite critical comments on youtube, the EA forum and even lesswrong. Unfortunately they got little to no upvotes while the video itself got enough karma to still be on the frontpage on both forums.
you should make this a standalone followup post
I'm not that good at sneering. 'EA is when you make Fordlândia'? Idk, you found the original post and you're much better at it, it's better if you do it.
It's like a combination of believing in magic and being able to afford a cast of really, really good personal magicians to keep you convinced