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The Periphery, Brandon Ferdig's avatar

Thank you for writing this. First, I enjoyed hearing how the conference went.

Second, I appreciate this analysis of the state of startup societies. Zooming in on some of the discussions and strategies for development was enlightening. And your own thoughts on moving forward were insightful.

In all, it excited me even more for the future of this movement and humanity's future with this movement thriving.

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Matt Harder's avatar

Good taxonomy. NS movement needs this kind of clear thinking.

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Roger Erickson's avatar

“governance-as-a-service“ ... That remains a dynamic, highly selective process.

actually “governance-as-a-service“ not just “society-as-a-service” ?

I'm not sure this concept can escape existing skunk-works & free-trade zone constraints;

it's a giveaway that you're suing the nation for Honduras for $10Billion;

  nations can't be sovereign either?  good luck with that approach!

There's no point of [transient] stability in the known world that isn't a dynamic equilibrium between conflicting forces. History indicates that sovereign does NOT guarantee permanence!

market protections come with market rules, aka "physiology"

post-nation-state entities ?

synthetic jurisdictions       ?

unbundling sovereignty    ?

sovereignty as an engineering problem ?

why not sovereignty as a speciation challenge?

levels of symbiosis come to mind;  

... all come with costs as well as benefits

as in cults, gangs etc, who are above any entities laws?

   Forced colonization? KKK?  settler-Zionists?  megalomaniacs? Squatters? "Eminent" Domain?

tolerance limits are mandatory

all "sovereigns" have to be responsible for what they wish for.   

whomever HOSTS any activity will be responsible if other "sovereigns" take offense;

Crypto is a sovereign technology?

   So were freedom of speech, tally sticks, fiat currency and separation of church & state.

All these amount to ongoing attempts to have desired freedoms and protect them too, along with everyone else's.   That remains a dynamic, highly selective process.

Any and all things that turn out to be systemically useful will inevitably be acknowledged, adopted and repurposed by a larger sovereign host.  So what's different?

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Antoine Dusséaux's avatar

Great article. By the way, last month several "Layer-0" countries established a kind of union: the Future of Investment and Trade (FIT) Partnership. Core founding members are the UAE, Switzerland, Singapore, and New Zealand. Additional founding members are Brunei, Chile, Costa Rica, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Morocco, Norway, Panama, Rwanda, and Uruguay: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/nz-singapore-uae-switzerland-launch-new-investment-and-trade-partnership

Could that become the New Hanseatic League?

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Cesar Gonzales's avatar

Brilliant ! and may I add:

Democracy 3.0 (D3.0) is a governance model where stakeholders delegate representation based on merit rather than popularity, with revocable delegation through a blockchain mechanism similar to YouTube likes. This ensures continuous accountability, transparency, and dynamic representation at all levels of governance.

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HiyTpGeu2nB9aGP3Sm88g3uv_cwrJ2G4r2FlpkIWrAg/edit?usp=sharing

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Zeev Kirsh's avatar

Wow , it sounds like someone read my comment on the last post and then wrote a whole posting on the topic. WOW! thanks nicholas. WELL DONE!. if you want to discuss on a podcast with me, i'm probably one of those people who lurk and watch and give opinions, but i did go to chiang mai thailand for 6 weeks to participate this time last year. and have been in crypto going to conferences ( did a startup ) and helped many startups as a lawyer. could be a good podcast and i'll be super nice ! not a criticial shit-tard. promise.

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Cesar Gonzales's avatar

Democracy 3.0 (D3.0) is a governance model where stakeholders delegate representation based on merit rather than popularity, with revocable delegation through a blockchain mechanism similar to YouTube likes. This ensures continuous accountability, transparency, and dynamic representation at all levels of governance.

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Zeev Kirsh's avatar

also you should maybe be plugging edge cities, patagonia right now as they could use your attention. there is a 'growing the pie' mentality here. everyone is helping everyone grow together in aggregate, not competing. the only negative co-opetition is to screen OUT the scammers like dryden brown and his praxis. screening out scammers is on the same footing with co-promotion of everyone who is not a scammer. yes , scams exist. and no, you can't be the person who wants to play politic and sit the fence. the network state is not an inevitably successful progression and like most movements it can be destroyed from within.

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