Balaji on Tribalism, Cloud Cartography, Internet Values [New Content]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrkcOB-sJZwIndia moon landing: Chandrayaan-3 rover captures images from lunar south pole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evdXcsw0rkIStart with the observation that companies, cities, currencies, communities, and countries are all becoming networks. As an analogy, we used to think of books, music, and movies as distinct. Then they all became represented by packets sent over the internet. Yes, we listened to music in audio players and viewed books in ebook readers, but their fundamental structure became digital. Similarly, today we think of stocks, bonds, gold, loans, and art as different. But all of them are represented as debits and credits on blockchains. Again, the fundamental structure became digital. Now, we are starting to think of different kinds of collections of people –— whether communities, cities, companies, or countries —– all fundamentally as networks, where the digital profiles and how they interact become more and more fundamental.
https://thenetworkstate.com/god-state-networkTerence McKenna - The Internet (1995)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qBcBs65wg4&t=3swhat this technology 2:08 that is putting in place is going to 2:11 mean is the way in which it will 2:13 dissolve boundaries is by making us 2:16 transparent to each other
SF city government > Bay Area tech founders. Despite how competent the tech founders of SF were on the Network, the political billionaires of the San Francisco city government managed to use their control of the State to turn the city into a hellhole. Intentionally or not, this had the effect of driving out the new money, their potential competition. Yes, there have been some successful tech-funded recall efforts recently, but it’s likely too little, too late. It’s akin to a stock price showing a bit of an upward trend after a huge and irreversible drop. Because the Bay Area’s monopoly is over. Technology has now globally decentralized into web3, and San Francisco (and even Silicon Valley) has now lost its position as the undisputed tech capital of the world. You no longer need to go to the Bay Area to build a startup — you can found and fund from anywhere. This is, on balance, a good thing — the fact that tech is no longer highly dependent on the triple dysfunction of SF/CA/USA is crucial to the world’s future. Note also that while the defeat of tech in SF was due to State > Network, the reason tech lives to fight another day is thanks to remote work, which allowed movement away from SF in a “Techxit.” And remote work is a case of Network > State.
https://thenetworkstate.com/god-state-networkSo, let’s suppose that this limited level of proof was worth it to you. You are willing to pay such that future generations can see an indelible record of a bit of history. How would you get that proof onto the Bitcoin blockchain? The way you’d do this is by organizing your arbitrarily large external dataset (a photo, or something much larger than that) into a Merkle tree, calculating a string of fixed length called a Merkle root, and then writing that to the Bitcoin blockchain through OP_RETURN. This furnishes a tool for proof-of-existence for any digital file. You can do this as a one-off for a single piece of data, or as a periodic backup for any non-Bitcoin chain. So you could, in theory, put a digital summary of many gigabytes of data from another chain on the Bitcoin blockchain every ten minutes for the price of a single BTC transaction, thereby proving it existed
https://thenetworkstate.com/microhistory-and-macrohistoryThe Network State in One Sentence
https://thenetworkstate.com/the-network-state-in-one-sentence"Narrated by Balaji AI."
https://thenetworkstate.com/the-network-state-in-one-sentenceAudiobook narrators are screwed
A network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder, a capacity for collective action, an in-person level of civility, an integrated cryptocurrency, a consensual government limited by a social smart contract, an archipelago of crowdfunded physical territories, a virtual capital, and an on-chain census that proves a large enough population, income, and real-estate footprint to attain a measure of diplomatic recognition. OK, that’s a mouthful! It’s lengthy because there are many internet phenomena that share some but not all of the properties of a network state. For example, neither Bitcoin nor Facebook nor a DAO is a network state, because each lacks certain qualities – like diplomatic recognition – which are core to anything we’d think of as the next version of the nation state.
nation-state
https://archive.ph/weQQ0#selection-523.0-526.0nation-state, a territorially bounded sovereign polity—i.e., a state—that is ruled in the name of a community of citizens who identify themselves as a nation. The legitimacy of a nation-state’s rule over a territory and over the population inhabiting it stems from the right of a core national group within the state (which may include all or only some of its citizens) to self-determination. Members of the core national group see the state as belonging to them and consider the approximate territory of the state to be their homeland. Accordingly, they demand that other groups, both within and outside the state, recognize and respect their control over the state. As the American sociologist Rogers Brubaker put it in Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe (1996), nation-states are “states of and for particular nations.” As a political model, the nation-state fuses two principles: the principle of state sovereignty, first articulated in the Peace of Westphalia (1648), which recognizes the right of states to govern their territories without external interference; and the principle of national sovereignty, which recognizes the right of national communities to govern themselves. National sovereignty in turn is based on the moral-philosophical principle of popular sovereignty, according to which states belong to their peoples. The latter principle implies that legitimate rule of a state requires some sort of consent by the people. That requirement does not mean, however, that all nation-states are democratic. Indeed, many authoritarian rulers have presented themselves—both to the outside world of states and internally to the people under their rule—as ruling in the name of a sovereign nation.
Peace of Westphalia
https://archive.ph/hYiXT#selection-493.0-496.0Peace of Westphalia, European settlements of 1648, which brought to an end the Eighty Years’ War between Spain and the Dutch and the German phase of the Thirty Years’ War. The peace was negotiated, from 1644, in the Westphalian towns of Münster and Osnabrück. The Spanish-Dutch treaty was signed on January 30, 1648. The treaty of October 24, 1648, comprehended the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand III, the other German princes, France, and Sweden. England, Poland, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire were the only European powers that were not represented at the two assemblies. Some scholars of international relations credit the treaties with providing the foundation of the modern state system and articulating the concept of territorial sovereignty.
Balaji Srinivasan | The Pseudonymous Economy & Transhumanism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKZpn3kYe7Aparadoxly the 1:36:48 less you want the deal so okay depending on the situation sometimes the 1:36:54 guy who wants it more wins and sometimes a guy who wants at least wins okay the first is in a 1:37:02 competitive situation the second's in a Cooperative situation in a competitive situation the guy who wants it more the 1:37:07 one who puts in more energy runs faster Works harder Etc and the second in a Cooperative 1:37:13 situation where both people have to sign off on a deal where there's some you know leverage the guy who wants at least 1:37:18 his walkway leverage and other guy's like no no please come back and has you know a bunch of terms they add to the contract to make it work 1:37:25 and so uh when you're talking about quote sovereignty the guy who wants at least you kind of probably want to be 1:37:32 there okay why because Mobility is leverage against the state law is a 1:37:39 function of latitude and longitude let's say you've got your local you've got your state you've got your federal overlays if you can cheaply change your 1:37:45 location you can negotiate with a different government if you are geo-locked you can't you don't have 1:37:51 optionality therefore if your goal is sovereignty then you actually want to be as mobile as possible so that if this 1:37:58 government doesn't work then you go to another government if they know that you don't have another option then you don't 1:38:04 have another option
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