The Network State
How To Start a New Country
by Balaji Srinivasan · first published 2022
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The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan for the past week and a half. About half the way through it. Would recommend
on “Ask HN: Which book are you reading, since when?” ↗- The Network State, by Balaji S. Srinivasan - The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964 - The Minimalist Entrepreneur, by Sahil Lavingia - Shoe Dog, by Phil Knight
on “Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022?” ↗I assume this is an attempt at an implementation of Balaji Srinivasan's Network State idea: https://thenetworkstate.com/
on “Show HN: Celody – A Music Network State” ↗It is notable that in Srinivasan's "The Network State" there is no mention of Ordnung as a positive example of how a parallel social order can and does work. All the mentions of Amish are negative examples at best. Much value creation is already digital.…
on “Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones” ↗I think this is best understood in the context of Balaji's Network State idea: https://foresight.org/salon/balaji-s-srinivasan-the-network-... I don't know, but I'm kind of skeptical of this. I find with a lot of crypto folks, the line between predicting state collapse and…
on “Balaji: The collapse in state capacity has not been priced in” ↗…Honduras to see Prospera, and other “micronations” or libertarian experiments, and want to help them out. I interviewed Patri Friedman on our show (and if anyone knows Balaji Srinivasan, who wrote The Network State, please message me — I’d love to interview him too) Say what you will about running a crypto startup, but I get to do fun things: https://community.intercoin.app/t/intercoin-mural-2-0/392 https://community.intercoin.app/t/intercoin-mural-3-0/1061
on “Croatia demolished houses of libertarian project “Liberland”, seized property” ↗…Collison and Emergent Ventures, Cowen’s Mercatus Center grant program established with funding from Thiel. Klein and Thompson were interviewed by Collison on their book tour. Cowen has his own interest in Network State style projects. Balaji Srinivasan, a cryptocurrency billionaire and Próspera funder, defines a Network State as “a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds…
on “Abundance: Big Tech's Bid for the Democratic Party” ↗…Moment", https://www.hoover.org/research/peter-thiel-straussian-momen..., who also funded JD Vance's rise to VP, and DJT. These guys, "Tech Bros", love the concepts written in Srinivasan's book "the Network State", and want to replace our current government with distributed monarchies. Srinivasan, Thiel, Andresen, and Curtis Yarvin actually have a documented plan to achieve this which is being executed, to a "T",…
on “I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA” ↗