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From one piece Why did Stu Woo of the Wall Street Journal Follow Me to Singapore? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The world's roughly 193 sovereign nation-states are unlikely to remain a fixed number indefinitely; more will emerge.Their words
I think it's quite unlikely that this "8-bit world" that we've inherited from the 20th century, which still has less than 256 nation states, will continue indefinitely.
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Denying people the right to leave a country effectively makes them slaves of the state.Their words
Indeed, the abrogation of exit rights essentially makes you a slave.
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both Democrats and Republicans are converging on the same political form as China: namely, a one-party state where elections may be held, but the party always wins. And where the only true vote is the vote with your feet.
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From one piece The Network State 25 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Law is a function of latitude and longitude, so if you can easily change your latitude and longitude, you can change the law under which you live.
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An organization that demands trust ends up with less of it than one that shows its work instead.Their words
Paradoxically, the organization that demands trust can get less of it, while the organization that shows their work - thereby not asking for trust - builds up more of it.
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After the financial deplatforming of Western proles and foreign elites, of Canadian truckers and 145M Russians, it’s clear that digital finance is a weapon of war.
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A government is legitimate internally if the governed have consented to it, whatever form it takes.Their words
Given the consent of the governed, any form of government is internally legitimate.
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Movements built around a shared moral cause outcompete purely profit-driven ones, in practice as well as in theory.Their words
missionary societies outcompete mercenary ones, not just in theory but in practice.
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This gives us a new perspective on why micronations like Sealand don’t work: they start backwards, from the territory and the government, rather than working forwards from a people and their culture.
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If you run a two-sided marketplace, you’ll find contra Hayek that not all knowledge is local.
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I disagree with the fundamental moral premise of Maximalism, which is that Bitcoin is the only coin and all other digital assets are sins.
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The US federal government has lost the capacity to build basic infrastructure, let alone advanced military hardware.Their words
This US government can’t build a bathroom in San Francisco, let alone a costeffective fighter jet, destroyer, combat ship, or aircraft carrier.
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Few institutions that predated the internet will survive the internet.
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Just like Hollywood once compared Netflix to the Albanian Army, the US establishment doesn’t yet understand how much better Satoshi Nakamoto or Vitalik Buterin is than every apparatchik they have in the Federal Reserve system.
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Another example is Bitcoin. It’s the Unix of money. You can send millions with a keystroke or rm your entire fortune. That’s more upside and more downside, by making people power users, and taking away the system administrator.
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Establishment journalists claim to speak truth to power but never investigate themselves or each other.Their words
The establishment journalist claims to speak truth to power, but somehow never gets around to investigating themselves or each other.
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Today's world is becoming tripolar. It is NYT vs CCP vs BTC. That's the American Establishment vs the Communist Party of China vs the Global Internet.
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The primary axis is no longer the politico-economic axis of capitalism-vs-communism, but the ethno-cultural axis of ethnomasochism-vs-ethnonationalism.
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If you want to produce moral and not just technological progress, you’re going to have to introduce new moral premises that invert what people previously believed.
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Unfortunately, no, because politics is about people who disagree with you. If you’re working with computers, or robots, or pure math, you don’t have politics.
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the vast majority of Americans had no practical freedom of speech unless they owned a media corporation or were employed by one.
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It is hard to name a country that is better off after a recent US military intervention.Their words
even the most committed American nationalist is hard pressed to name a country that’s better off after a recent US military intervention, something that wasn’t that hard to do from 1945-1991.
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the US establishment is not more ethical than the CCP when it comes to civil liberties. It’s just less competent!
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As mentioned before, Uber and Lyft are better regulators than the State’s paper-based taxi medallions, email is superior to the USPS, and SpaceX is out-executing NASA.
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As incredible as it may sound, the blockchain is the most important development in history since the advent of writing itself, as it’s a cryptographically verifiable, highly replicated, unfalsifiable, and provably complete digital record of a system.
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In this sense, the Network is the next Leviathan, because on key dimensions it is becoming more powerful and more just than the State.
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Encryption thus limits governments in a way no legislation can.
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new laws are like code that is pushed live to production without even being read (let alone tested), often in the face of tremendous opposition, affecting millions of citizens, with minimal monitoring to ensure they’re producing the desired results, an extremely slow customer feedback cycle, and few ways to truly opt out.
12 October 2025
From one piece Popups are the new startups 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A popup community follows the same growth path as a startup, beginning small before scaling into something permanent.Their words
a popup is similar to a startup, with a roadmap for starting up small but eventually scaling up big.
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the Internet is the only thing with global economic scale comparable to China and has also (b) given birth to an entirely new digital legal system that already de facto manages ~99% of global communications and transactions
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The internet-based code order is succeeding the nation-state rules-based international order.Their words
the successor to the rules-based order of America is the code-based order of the Internet.
28 September 2025
From one piece Network State Conference 2025 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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By building new societies with defined social smart contracts where everyone has explicitly consented to governance - and anyone can opt out - we can defend capitalism, democracy, internationalism, self-determination, and liberal values in an increasingly illiberal world.
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many countries (particularly small states, and those from the ascending world) want global technologists to bring capital, talent, and economic development to their jurisdictions.
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Because the next step after cryptocurrencies is cryptocommunities.
3 August 2025
From one piece AI is polytheistic, not monotheistic 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI is currently having a decentralizing effect on industry and economic power rather than a centralizing one.Their words
Right now, AI is arguably having a decentralizing effect, because there are (a) so many AI companies and (b) there is so much more a small team can do with the right tooling, and (c) because so many high quality open source models are coming.
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Crypto's deterministic guarantees constrain what probabilistic AI systems can fake or solve.Their words
AI is probabilistic while crypto is deterministic. So crypto can constrain AI.
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The future is multi-model.Their words
there is no AGI, there are many AGIs. That is: we empirically observe polytheistic AI (many strong models) rather than monotheistic AI (a single all-powerful model).
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The Lessons of HistoryTheir words
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Unqualified ReservationsTheir words
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A Short History of Nearly EverythingTheir words
Foundation, The Lessons of History, Unqualified Reservations, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady Winked
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The Selfish GeneTheir words
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Albion's SeedTheir words
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War and Peace and WarTheir words
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Stalin's WarTheir words
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Energy and CivilizationTheir words
Foundation, The Lessons of History, Unqualified Reservations, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady Winked
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Who We Are and How We Got HereTheir words
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The Ancient CityTheir words
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The Fourth TurningTheir words
Foundation, The Lessons of History, Unqualified Reservations, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady Winked
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The Grey Lady WinkedTheir words
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Imagined CommunitiesTheir words
Imagined Communities, Invisible Countries, The Origins of Political Order, How to Hide an Empire, The House of Government
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Invisible CountriesTheir words
Imagined Communities, Invisible Countries, The Origins of Political Order, How to Hide an Empire, The House of Government
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The Origins of Political OrderTheir words
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How to Hide an EmpireTheir words
Imagined Communities, Invisible Countries, The Origins of Political Order, How to Hide an Empire, The House of Government
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The House of GovernmentTheir words
Imagined Communities, Invisible Countries, The Origins of Political Order, How to Hide an Empire, The House of Government
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A New Idea of IndiaTheir words
A New Idea of India, China's Political Model, Seeing Like a State, Tomorrow the World, From Third World to First, When Money Dies, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
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China's Political ModelTheir words
A New Idea of India, China's Political Model, Seeing Like a State, Tomorrow the World, From Third World to First, When Money Dies, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
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Seeing Like a StateTheir words
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Tomorrow the WorldTheir words
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From Third World to FirstTheir words
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When Money DiesTheir words
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of ChinaTheir words
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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet UnionTheir words
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Three Felonies a DayTheir words
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Reputation and PowerTheir words
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The Power BrokerTheir words
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The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From ScratchTheir words
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom, How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Principles for a Changing World Order
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How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in FreedomTheir words
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How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time TravelerTheir words
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DaemonTheir words
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The Network StateTheir words
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