Noah gets it right. A network city makes more sense than a state. You’re not fully ‚sovereign‘ but symbiotic with a host country and de-risk against single point of failure by building multiple zones / cities (Hanseatic League).

First time I heard about network state like things was sea steading in 2010. It’s fun how the crazy ones find each other eventually 🤣

Nailed it. Free social spaces like network states are the innovation labs of countries. Haseeb ＞|＜ on network states!

„Building places we’d be excited not just to visit but to live in.“ Nice words from vitalik.eth speaking to Balaji at the network state conference! Excited for the renewed focus on social innovation and cultural technology.

Wild seeing Balaji network state conference maintain 500-600k viewers online the entire day today. Feels like a genuine shift into build and scale mode for these network states and startup societies! Love to see it 👽💚

I love this. 👽💚 (on how to think more simply about AI risk) I actually prefer the simple argument in an inverted form: If you claim that there is no AI-risk, then which of the following bullets do you want to bite? - “If a race of aliens with an IQ of 300 came to Earth, that

Yeah this is it. 🥳 That was the feeling.

Concerning

if you’re in Europe, you need to wake up right now

I’m creating Oz City The Oz City – pop up village for AI founders and builders pioneering in the deAI space! It was incredible to share this vision on stage. Thank you Balaji for the invitation and the amazing opportunity 🌍

The best way that you can fight back against the state reading your messages is to switch to Signal . Insist that your friends and family use it.

Pushing the d/acc ideas and communities around it forward Zuitzerland The Oz City