Update from Seasteading Institute Tuesday, Apr 21 2009
technology 11:17 am
Via Facebook, an update from our friends at the Seasteading Institute:
Hello Seasteading Supporters!
Hope you’re all having a wonderful Spring and thanks to everyone for your support.
As some of you have heard already – last week The Seasteading Institute celebrated its first birthday and released its annual report. We also launched a new and improved Membership Program to give you all a chance to get involved in seasteading, become a part of our movement and spread the idea of seasteading around the world. Your contributions and your participation in the seasteading community are what keep this a vital, growing movement.
There are 4 different basic membership levels on which you can support The Seasteading Institute:
Seahorse – $25 annually
Jellyfish – $100 annually
Octopus – $20 Monthly or $240 annually
Dolphin – $50 Monthly or $600 annuallyMore information on Membership in TSI is available on our website: http://seasteading.org/contribute/membership
To see our recently released annual report please visit our website: http://seasteading.org/mission/annual-report
Thanks for your support and hope to see some of you local folks at our next social in San Francisco next week!
Cheers,
The Seasteading Institute
I recently found another reason why seasteading would be a good idea — in a nuclear winter, continental temperatures would fall by much more than ocean temperatures, because the ocean is thermally stable. So sea cities would be a nice place to live after a nuclear war (except for those pesky pirates, though there’d be “pirates” on land too).
I hate to tout a recurring theme… but $600 or 10 minutes of time and attention would be better spent on researching existential risks such as smarter than human AI and bio-terrorism than on seasteading.
I read through some of the seasteading proposals, and it seems to be a very touch-and-go business. I doubt that seasteading would play any significant role in post nuclear survival for at least 100 years. Even SSI admits that you’d have to import a lot of the food, for example.
Basically, it’s a cool concept, in the same way that jetpacks are a cool concept. Not really worthy of serious research effort, time or money, though.
I agree. The whole “Let’s make a land just for transhumanists based on libertarian law” idea just isn’t viable when places like Singapore openly court advanced biotech development and turn a blind eye to most forms of research and development.
“Let’s make a land just for transhumanists based on libertarian law”
– I thought that the seasteading community was only loosely tied to h+?
Seahorse – $25 annually
Jellyfish – $100 annually
Octopus – $20 Monthly or $240 annually
Dolphin – $50 Monthly or $600 annually
also, this is exceptionally cheesy…
I bet there are a couple of dictators in Africa who would sell their land for a new nation, which would make a lot more sense than seasteading. Of course, there is the threat of invasion, so maybe protection should also be bought.
@Anon
Fortunately the West has the lion’s share of mercenary companies to hire for protection detail.