Cybercity of the future: How an ambitious 29-year old plans to build Praxis, a stateless tech utopia
Cybercity of the future: How an ambitious 29-year old plans to build Praxis, a stateless tech utopia
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- why is this guy given attention?
- does his "plan" have any substance beyond "things will be awesome, not cringe, just all the good stuff and none of the bad stuff"?
- how is he working towards making it a reality?
- does he know anything about city planning (playing gompooter gaems doesn't count)?
- does he know anything about ____?
- why this guy and not any of the other 523.324.237 other 29-year old faildudes around the world who also had a great idea for a utopia after smoking DMT or reading a sci-fi novel or playing a bideo bame?
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why is this guy given attention?
Because it's Peter Thiel's project.
Although Brown’s ideas may sound far-fetched and idealistic to some, he’s managed to get investors to buy in and claims to have a $500 million line of credit to get Praxis started.
One of them, indirectly, is Peter Thiel. According to Brown, Thiel is an investor in Pronomos Capital which has invested in Praxis, although he adds, “beyond that, I can’t comment.”
New York Post is owned by News Corp, Murdoch, who is in cahoots with Thiel.
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imagine having so much money and so little connection to reality that you just feel like blowing astronomical sums on some average dudebro's vibes-based utopia scheme
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why is this guy given attention?
I ask myself this like 800 times a day at this point
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Those are just pictures of Naboo from star wars. Also it wouldn't be stateless cause it would be a state. The article even calls it a city-state. If we could cordon off some wasteland and let them build their tech utopia in exchange for letting us film and broadcast the process to the sane world it'd be totally worth it.
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I'm pretty sure both ancaps and tech journalists don't know what a state is
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It's one of those 5hings that's pretty hard to avoid having when you stake out territory and set certain norms within thst territory.
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modern capitalist markets are exactly the same as markets in Ancient Roman times, all we gotta do is make a society like that but without the the Senate and Consuls and we're good.
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Those are just pictures of Naboo from star wars.
That's not entirely fair.
One of them is a picture of the Cathedral of the Sacred Blood from Code Vein.
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Well, hell then, build it. All the techbros will get lost in the labyrinth and eat each other.
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Turns out when you ask an AI to make a picture of "an advanced Sci-Fi city" it just steals from popular sci fi franchises.
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Not gonna read it. Here's my guess: the city will run on AI, robot everything, crypto, gene editing, no taxes, big business investment, no laws because the population are all elite libertarian Übermensch.
How close am I?
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Word for word and it will be "completely independent" from all other nations and states too!
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Come on man, don't be that guy who reads the article and then makes a fake guess about the content.
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Shit, we're getting collapse of US empire and corpo cities all in one year
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Yes! Please sink billions into this crap! At least some builders and plumbers will get a pay check before it all sinks into a ravine.
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this dork is the Andrew Ryan of our timeline? can't wait to see what kinds of plasmids the libertarians manage to cook up in Praxis. fire, electricity, age-of-consent. all the classics.
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Ancapland
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back when AI was good
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My brain wants to imagine the BioShock intro but with red scare podcast voice
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By "stateless" they mean like a bridged ethernet link, right? Packet sniffing utopia! I'm so here for it!
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