Roko is of course begging the question, and the premise he is wrong about is that there is a sizable population willing to relocate to a floating iceberg, instead of living in an existing country.

Consider what the proposed citizens have to consent to:

• paying for the R&D required to implement the technical solutions Roko envisions, along with the continued higher maintenance costs
• paying higher wages for the people who are supposed to do all the boring menial jobs in this floating city, on par with existing cities
• paying higher daily cost of living for everything from food to building supplies to luxuries to entertainment that have to be imported
• being at the mercy of "legacy governments", many of whom possess navies capable of everything from interdicting the food supply, to literally undermining the city from below, to actual assaults and airstrikes
• paying higher prices for insurance of their lives and dwellings and possessions because of all the above

Amusingly the solution for a libertarian city is a megastructure project probably only a rich nation is prepared to pay for.

Already asked and answered elsewhere in the comments.

Edit see https://awful.systems/post/1587716

Something something poker up his backside.

JWZ once said that every platform eventually evolves into being able to send email and allowing its users to flirt and hook up. I dunno if Urbit has reached that stage.

I remember people convinced his big donations to Democrats would enable him to walk.

Edit I'm pretty sure those same people are gonna defend the judge's opinion that SBF is the worst defendant he's ever met with the fact he's autistic.

You still need to lever that money by "buying" the people in power.

Right now there's really no mainstream politicians 100% on board with the weirdness of TESCREALs:

• mainstream Democrats - too wary of corporations, too eager to regulate
• pre-Trump GOP - maybe, but they're losing influence fast
• current Trump GOP - literally crazy, way too easy for TESCREALs to be painted as a satanic cult

I dunno. At least in the US, these people are decidedly outside the mainstream, at least in the US. Their views on religion and sexual mores preclude any popular appeal, and they are handicapped in a similar way were they to try to infiltrate existing power structures.

Basically their only hope is that an AI under their control takes over the world.

Just the other day, a bunch of cryo tanks holding scientific specimens in a research hospital in Sweden failed and destroyed 30 years worth of data.

Something something Sparta

Only someone with high INT can discover this brilliant theory. As luck would have it, they have high CHR too!

Dude doxxed protest too much.

to be scrupulously fair there's only a small subset in the threads doing that annoying passive-aggressive HN thing of "I don't understand, please provide me with copious citations supporting your position".

It's very important for some HN to keep up the facade that Scott Siskind is just the author of the Neoreactionary FAQ and actually not a neoreactionary himself.