Welcome to @balajis.eth! He’s kindly agreed to do an AMA. Reply with your questions. :)
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Based on the information you have currently encountered, how far are humans from achieving "eternal life"?
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What’s the best argument (ie that you believe to have merit) you’ve been presented against Bitcoin? Directionally agnostic — could be a counter to digital gold or a p2p network, whatever
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How does the governance function in a network state? Is it going to be a flat or council or something different than the current systems?
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It's possible for "tribes" to trade and cooperate across the boundaries of very different value systems. Where can blue/grey/red tribes trade instead of fight?
Network StatesWhat's your estimated timeline for the first Network State-like country to emerge?
Network StatesHave you read the new @vitalik.eth "d/acc" post? (tldr, his version of techno-optimism - https://warpcast.com/vitalik.eth/0x827fc6cb) If so, how compatible does it seem with the Gray / Network State movements?
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Props to you for showing up on Modi's radar, that's crazy 🤯 As someone living in the US, what are some action items for me to get more involved in the Indian tech scene? What's missing there that folks in the US/UK take for granted? How can people create content that bridges the western & Indian tech ecosystems?
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Why did you leave Coinbase? How do you feel about the direction of the company?
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what does “home” mean to you? what cities, places*, etc. have most felt like home to you and why? *or if not a physical place, then what digital communities?
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- What are young, ambitious people considering as they decide where to move? - Is the above group still moving to the US / declining rate? - Harvard's true strength is its selection process, which makes it tough to replicate, even with the same coursework and staff. Does the same rule apply for SF / SV? Why / why not?
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what was your early life like? ages 5-16, what do you think has contributed most to shaping the person you are today?
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Rank all your start up experiences in terms of lessons learned, and most fun you had
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How would you formulate your personal mission in relation to Network States? What is the next short-term goal?
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What do you think of Asgardia, the space nation?
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what are some cases (historical examples etc) where the “history running in reverse” framework doesn’t apply?
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How do you see the next generation of families adopting technology? And what do families look like to you? Much love to your work and your thoughts. -Les
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A lot of talk is focused on creating smaller and smaller tribes; comparatively little is about increasing global cooperation. How do you balance the narrative of civilization forming larger bonds (village > city > city state > nation > ..) with the nature of innovation mostly happening in small groups & iterating fast?
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Hey @balajis.eth, thanks a lot for doing this AMA! 1) what DAOs are most inspiring to you for potential governance models for network states? 2) what has been missing from DAOs that you want to ensure ends up in network state governance?
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When terrestrial governments start to take notice that people are more aligned with their network state than physical state, will the stage be set for some kind of conflict? And if so, what’s a network state to do? Become a political party?
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Which skills (technical or nontechnical) do you think will be the most highly valued in the next 5-10 years? My background is a blend of tech/non tech (symbolic systems equiv.) and trying to figure out how to best leverage these skills in an entrepreneurial setting (early 20s, still exploring career paths)
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Are network states composable? Will there be such a thing as a network of network states? (Cities, states, countries, unions) Is there a need for it?
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Beyond the real-world challenges of building a network state, what is the most significant criticism you've encountered regarding the ideas presented in 'The Network State' book, and why?
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In a society where humans have significantly extended (or eternal) lifespans, what are your views on how the family unit may evolve? In a world without funerals, would humans "graduate" from families, or is there another form of closure and rebirth/restart?
Network StatesYou tend to be an original thinking across various domains, so I’m curious about your process of idea generation. How do you organize your work process and what are your primary sources of “news”?
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What do you think of Poland? What should be the top 3 priorities for polish government to grow over next 50 years?
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What book are you currently reading and why?
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what's the minimum viable network union? opposite of that, what secure infra does the network need beyond the nodes to successfully resist dismantling or capture?
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Would be great if Balaji can share his vision for the optimal network state that will be founded for transcending our cognitive and biological limits, and to focus on longevity.
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How do you see the prevention of friction between what now are named host countries and the network states, assuming that geographical clustering of Network State members will become some sort of norm?
Network StatesI bristle a bit at the red/blue/grey model since it collapses the beautiful high dimensional complexity of a social graph into just three buckets. Simplification is useful, but encourages us to draw borders where in fact we may be interconnected. How do we find more meaningful clusters without simplifying too far?
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1. What's something you've changed your opinion on recently? 2. What's the most impactful you've read in the past year?
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Q 1/5: There are number of place where landed is contested (eg Cyprus, Western Sahara ...) Do you consider paying off both side Sam Zimmery style a viable strategy for land acquisition for Network Stake ? Would you advocate for pursuing something along those lines ?
Network StatesQ 2/5: Places with very low population density (& lot of sun), underdeveloped countries may want to develop. Seems like there should be a way to stuck a deal exchanging sovereignty for development. (eg Namibia) https://shorturl.at/enHT4 Do you see that as viable, would you advocate pursuing that approach ?
Network StatesQ 3/5: If network state effort fails, what will be the likeliest cause. Or in another words what do you see as biggets obsticle when it comes to establising fully sovereign network state.
Network StatesQ 4/5: Will you release results of exit pool from network state conference ? If so, WEN results ?! c3a6414b5aa8b5e382ae014e0f1d3366d3ebf525bfcfa2347aba887d99826ef2
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Gm @balajis.eth my question for you is: What would you consider the biggest risk and opportunity for digital identities onchain?
Network StatesQ 5/5: Who will be on the network state's mount rushmore (other than you and @vitalik.eth ) ?
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How do you come up with all your catch phrases? Do they occur to you spontaneously? Do you ever decide a concept deserves a catch phrase?
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What role do you think stablecoins play in the future of finance? If hyperinflation does occur, do they become “stable” against BTC? Thanks for all you do!
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What’s the most surprising idea / theme for a network state that you’ve seen so far? Which network states do you think are most developed without people knowing they’re in one? I think it’s blueprint by Bryan Johnson.
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how far are we from the singularity?
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Should a Network State be formed as a DAO? and if so what platform (i.e. Ethereum or Bitcoin or other) should be used?
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The worker’s unions of the 20th century were powerful (like Hoffa and the teamsters) and in many ways seem like proto-DAOs. What role do DAO’s have to play in the development of Network States?
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what set of principles (religion, philosophy, free form...) do you use to guide your life decisions?
Network Statesvitalik has mentioned that his main worry about the future of ethereum is stagnation: https://warpcast.com/vitalik.eth/0xea65fa6b are you worried about stagnation in crypto? what can be done to ensure that we don't stagnate?
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Do you have an outline for someone without a technical background to see how they can contribute to the Network State? Have enough free time to help, but figuring out exactly what to do is proving the most difficult.
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In a future network state, how do you think about 'regulation' in crypto? Should there be any? Your thoughts on rules like limits on leverage, requiring transparency of smart contract audit information on dapps websites, or knowledge based tests for access to advanced DeFi tools, etc.?
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There are many network of states projects out there that are clearly NGMI. What's your take on the network of states narrative for 2024?
Network StatesAre you a pet person? If so, what kind of pets?
Network StatesWhat's your take on CZ paying 4billion in fine and potentially walk away scot-free? Is that net positive or negative for crypto?
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Have you considered letting Network State Stan’s host meetups around the world to discuss and take action together? Or have you considered how to keep people connected and pushing the ball forward since the conference?
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It feels like some of the momentum of the "let's explore alternatives to SF" movement has weakened since 2021, with AI and "back to the office" mandates contributing to re-centralization. What are your updated thoughts on how we can cleave apart that network effect to create more practical freedom of location?
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What interesting advancements in biomedicine are you most excited about today?
Network StatesBig one: How could we (the people) save America?
Network StatesWhat are some issues on which you disagree with the "median elite Indian" perspective the most?
Network StatesHow correlated are the network state and the crypto/decentralization movements? Do you have a sense of what percentage of folks exploring network states aren't involved in/users of crypto?
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What is something you‘ve changed your mind about recently?
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I'm a big fan of India and love your takes on it. I'm currently in Canada as I need to be for business reasons, and you are in Singapore as well. My question is - what would it take for you to move back to India? Or rather, what's keeping you in Singapore right now?
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What are your view on the current landscape of decentralized social/communication networks? Specifically Nostr vs Farcaster
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Where do you think Germany stands in context of its economy in the coming future? It seems that it relies heavily on the industries it built 50 years ago and would like it keep it that way.
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What do you think about censorship resistant media given your podcasts are hosted on Spotify’s RSS service anchor.fm and YouTube. Is distribution of ideas more important for now and censorship resistance will be important later or not important?
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What’s your dark horse prediction for 2024? Something you believe is likely to happen that others may not be thinking about.
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fellow 1997 Long Island lacrosse player here. Curious if there were any learning and lessons from playing team sports that still influence you today.
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What surprised you the most in the past year?
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Do you plan on founding a network state? If yes, when are you founding it and what's the one commandment? If no, what competing priority are you choosing to focus on instead?
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how do we balance understanding techno-panic cycles blow the risk of new tech out of proportion basically every time, but there are still real risks whose proportion & impact can only be made known by moving forward? How do we bound the downside without smothering the upside?
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why do u live in Singapore if ure bullish on India?
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What do you see as the 4 key future years/decades & percentage penetration for each when looking the global adoption curve of crypto for payments/transactions
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Which projects related to Network States are you keenly following / see as having the most potential?
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Sambar or rasam? Idli or dosa? Oh and ur thoughts on the need for synth data as biz model for web3 builders in DeFi and Agent tooling.
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We’re in an industry where there are more protocols than products to use them. An imbalance that must shifted for the long term growth of web3. How do you see the landscape of projects changing between protocols and products?
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What has disappointed you about crypto/web3 so far? (I mean the tech not SBF)
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What are you the most optimistic on regarding the future of healthcare?
Network StatesYou're widely known for your ability to forecast the future, what was one of your biggest missed prediction and why were you so far off?
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What’s something (industry, idea, internet subculture) that’s low status now that you believe will be high status in in 5-8 years
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I’m am extremely scared about your response to this but…. what is your take on the current pneumonia surge in China?
Network StatesWhich narratives do you think will push crypto forward in the short term? Do you believe in the term ‘community money’ for ETH? And hard money for BTC? Where does SOL fit? Consumer execution layer? Cheers!
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Why I don't have the batch ? I'm an active user frome the began
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How does housing and shelter look like in a futurist world? What becomes a human's relationship to "home"? Does the Digital Nomad arise? Do we become more sedentary due to increasing tribalism? How do Network States physically organize their communities? Re: real estate, territorial boundaries, Neumann's Flow, Mars
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What role can network states play in carbon removal? How do you think about removing billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere economically? I'm going to Dubai for COP28 next week to build the new carbon economy.
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why have you framed the aspiration for network states as one culminating in territorial sovereignty in a westphalian sense? i would think the big unlock that NS bring is the blurring of the boundaries and formalisms of the westphalian system of statehood.
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Thoughts or any plan for Brazil?
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What’s your take on the Binance/DOJ settlement and what it means, if anything, for the viability of true network sovereignty?
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I have been reading through “The Anthology of Balaji” recently and find it very insightful and inspiring. I wanted to ask, what part of the book is your favorite and why?
@balajis.eth Why are you so excited about Afropolitan? How would you approach building a project that evolves from a business to a network state?
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Do you believe AGI will be achieved over the next decade?
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How can people living outside of India invest into the Indian ecosystem?
Network StatesWhat are you thoughts on potential network nodes in Europe? Seems like a lot of small villages / old cities could be more promising that starting new cities in the U.S. Seems inevitable good weather places like Spain attract more over time. What am I missing?
Network StatesWhat’s a big decision you’re thinking through right now?
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in your opinion, what community or culture is closest to achieving your vision of a network state?
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How do you think about Cyborgs , AI Technology will 100% replace human labor in all fields?
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What mindset needs to change in the Indian society to focus on innovation and acceleration rather than going after and voting for socialist leaders that distribute freebies in exchange for votes?
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What is your key personal challenge right now?
Network StatesDo you put on both shoes before tying your laces... Or do you put on one shoe, tie, then repeat with the other shoe?
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@balajis.eth for most Western citizens, crypto is still some combination of confusing, scary, and unnecessary. What are the most compelling, yet simple + easy to understand arguments for a normal Westerner to get into crypto that you’ve found?
Network Statesis space colonization the killer app for network states? it's obviously hard and problematic to break the century of peace on earth by starting a new era of territorial expansion. but space colonies need a legal framework for transacting.
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In your opinion, 1) Which communities have advanced furthest to being network states; and 2) what technology (or social /cultural norms) are we currently missing to accellerate this advance even further?
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During the network state conference, someone mentioned that it was very similar to the early burning man days, ie lots of real estate project promotion. I haven’t been around early Burning Man, but do you see any similarities?
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It’s 2050 — Where is Balaji right now? What’s he working on (or not)?
How do you imagine the world of software (and our interactions with software) will look like in 2030?
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@balajis.eth where did you eat the best chili crab when you were in Singapore during Token2049? 
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During your conference I was skeptical that there are truly 70m digital nomads (figures were from Plumia). What is your estimate on the potential network citizens right now and in the next decades?
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If the Indian govt. offers you the ministry, would you love to take this opportunity, or would you prefer to support from outside?
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Tips for internet homesteading in china before relocating to a network state is an option.
Network StatesWhat according to you, will be the inflexion point where the governments of the world scurry to a fully decentralized economy? Do we need an economically catastrophic event in order to trigger that?
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Why recreate the state onchain?
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Why my active badge gone and i cant take it again ! What should i do !? The badge is manually !?
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how do you think about a potential new era of social ‘networks’ versus social media or entertainment? Some of Eugene Wei’s blogs describe this well https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service
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Balaji, are we in the bull market? And how do you think this bull run will be different from the past ones?
Network StatesDo you think a few Eurodollar stablecoins, a large crypto exchange, and an offshore bank (for crypto/fiat interchange) are sufficient primitives for financial sovereignty? Binance had all of those but chose to throw them away for a DOJ cease-fire.
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what would make you consider moving back to the US full-time?
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Any lessons for Network States from the neverending attacks on Israel's very existence, both on land and in the cloud?
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What was the most exciting thing you’ve done(not related to business)?
Are you still actively involved in efforts to prolong human lifespan? Or have you been more of an observer in the recent years
Network Statesdo you see a future with china leading the world economically/politically? what does that look like? @dwr.eth is famously anti-ccp and lacks nuanced in his thinking, curious what your thoughts are
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Which of the two strategies do you think will have the highest probability of eventually yielding a 1m+ citizen highly engaged startup society, and why: Online first with decentralised expansion into physical - e.g. kift, cabin, afropolitan Physical first / land, regulation-driven - e.g. prospera, praxis
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What's your take on Bitcoin and Marxism? I am gradually seeing a lot of interesting interplay between these two ideologies. Would love to learn about your thoughts.
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What was the biggest impact that the podcast with Lex Fridman had in the framework with which you perceive the world?
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What are the most critical needs for the network state in terms of services? low hanging fruits, not utterly complex to execute
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When do you think India will become a startup powerhouse like US or China? What's the next flipkart?
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How do you see Auroville in the context of Network States?
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How do you imagine network states seceding peacefully without governments exercising their monopoly on violence ?
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I took @balajis.eth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">balajis.eth ‘s startup engineering course in 2013 and it was a great introductory lectures to web dev. I wonder if @balajis.eth would offer an updated course or something new for example startup network state? I think the community is grown big and many would be happy to contribute to the dev of new lectures
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What do you think of collaborating directly with small nation-states from a network state angle? For instance, hosting a "Network State" hackathon in some small country like Palau where hackers can build network state hacks/tools and maybe receive judging/mentorship from the countries local government staff
Network StatesHow essential do you think network states are for crypto's future in terms of creating circular economies? https://warpcast.com/ayushm.eth/0xae8e57fd
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Hi Balaji, what do you see as the leading example of a network state today? How can we contribute in making it successful?
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How can the “exit the system” energy of Trump voters be channeled into BTC, for example?
If a network state is a "layer 0" type of Blockchain and each person is a "node" in this network, how does the optimal behavior protocol should look like in your opinion? And what should we optimize for or select within the nodes?.
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With crypto and AI both having huge demand for silicon compute, and AI clearly getting the lion's share, how do you see crypto faring in a future of increasingly constrained resources?
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What have you been wrong about and what have you learned from it? Thank you!
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Is everyone free to talk on this platform? Is security guaranteed? Because it connects our wallets
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What’s your rough timelines for of the playing out of the network states thesis (maybe define that by wide acceptance/recognition of the « sovereignty » of a network state)
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The Network State is thought-provoking, not only because of the ideas in it but because of the format itself, as a “rolling-release” book - more living than a book and more structured than a blog. Now that it’s been a few years since you released it, what are your thoughts about this format and its potential?
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what do you consider the most developed network state to date? why that one?
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What is your biggest tip for long-form writing and podcasting?
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What’re the key bottlenecks to see more network states emerge?
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Do you believe anthropogenic climate change should be addressed at all by state policy? In a similar vein, should the $7 trillion in global state subsidies toward fossil fuels each year be decreased, increased, or stay the same?
Network StatesWhat kinds of autonomy / legal concessions do you think it is most reasonable and realistic for network states to seek from host governments, at least in the short term?
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Network StatesWhat are some types of people who found network state ideas very appealing that you totally were not expecting?
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Curious how you will see Network States play out around the world. Will cultural/social/systematic factors come into play and help shape different types of Network States globally?
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What do you assess to be the likelihood of catastrophic climate change interrupting technological progress over the coming decades?
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Would you renounce to any form of power in a network state you participated in creating ?
Network StatesWhat are the biggest value-adds that network states can provide (or should try to provide) to host countries?
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How do we incentivize people to stay in communities for the long term when there is so much convexity in pioneering?
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Where do you see Warpcast branching out to in real-world systems? 10-15 years down the road what are you hoping for Warpcast to become
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How can we make a social coordination tool useful? We are developing a tool designed to help communities coordinate their social media messaging, but we're struggling to identify a practical use case. Any recommendations on where to start?
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@balajis.eth Here is a portrait for you! It is designed by Pablo, a feature abstractionist artist in Forbes and NY Times. Hope you enjoy it and feel free to Dm for the original portrait!
Network StatesYou tend to be an original thinking across various domains, so I’m curious about your process of idea generation. How do you organize your work process and what are your primary sources of “news”?
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What are the most interesting investment fields inside/outside crypto & India? Do you see interesting investment fields coming together? Tech & India, Crypto & AI, etc.
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How do you navigate your own idea maze? What is your reading and writing workflow like? Do you use any particular tools or methods (e.g. Zettelkasten)? If yes, which ones and how do you implement them?
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What according to you looks like a practical network state STACK for 2024?
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@balajis.eth if you could run a part of the US Federal government for 100 days, what would you focus on and what success metrics would you set for your team?
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As a fellow Chemical Engineer who now works in web3, I always wonder what prompted you to study ChemE after doing several electrical engineering degrees? Thanks! 🤓
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What’s your opinion on national borders? When do you think they’ll get redrawn again and why/not?
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Warpcast is fast and smooth over my expectation. Besides, I think we need to change something: 1. Add thread-alike for longer posts 2. Fix the Scroll issue on Home. Don't know where I am after commenting 3. More AMAs, maybe shorter ones, esp. in this Farverse! 4. Still brainstorming for more...
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Hey @balajis.eth! Regarding Network states: how important is the sovereignty of the network’s infrastructure? Can a network use gated discords or telegram? Or do they need to have their own infrastructure gated by cryptography?
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@balajis.eth : How do you decentralize healthcare, diagnostics, immunization , surgery and overall care?
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Is there something about the Network State vision that scares you? Are there any specific applications that you find worrisome?
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Can you give an updated view of your viral take that major US banks will colapse after the events that wiped out SVB?
Network Stateshave you been surprised at all by the strengthening of the U.S. axis (what you call “NYT” in your trifecta)? Examples: - US-led rally of free world to support ukraine - strength of U.S. dollar against all other fiat currencies - strength of U.S. equities, GDP - epicenter of AI - other countries hoping to dollarize
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@balajis.eth what do you think will be the “crossing the chasm” use case for network states? e.g. values driven community, startup cities, long form conferences, creator collectives, etc.
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We've got high speed internet, compute, value exchange mechanisms and ability to organise widely too. Having said that, what do we think are the key challenges/barriers to starting the world's first proper network state? Lets work through them.
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What are your thoughts on reintroducing your original 21 dot co / earn dot com concept with crypto-native profiles, where message costs are determined by on-chain net worth and social influence ( leveraging Farcaster and Lens)?
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If we consider "Keto good" as our one commandment, we'll be digging history, accumulating knowledge and doing experiments as a NS. But how do we make money as an org? Are we going to be selling education materials? Courses? Nation states can just tax people and sell natural resources. Its a profitable business.
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tech will be the future, how do you see physical events playing out such as sports with the increasing reality in digital experiences? how do you see AR/VR/neuralink integrating in our lifes like smartphones in 5-10 years from now?
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Belief: A network state finding a physical place ensures smooth operation. Cultural identity alignment and hard work prioritizing beliefs over capital are crucial in this transition, echoing historic precedents. How will these identity movements shape the "Network State" concept?
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What are your thoughts on privacy infrastructure building on top of web3? What do you think suits best for privacy: EVMs or Solana?
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Thanks for the amazing session. I learned a lot.
Network StatesOne thing you've not spoke against much is democracy. Is it too hot of a topic to touch? I know that you've pushed for 100% democracy(NS) instead of 51% democracy. But that doesn't work in physical cities unless the founder builds a new city and becomes its CEO(aka dictator -USGOV). Do you agree that democracy sucks?
Network StatesWhere's the best place to reach out to you for investment? We're building a community-driven reputation protocol with a constant feedback loop, including initial client apps for enhanced search and incentive intelligence in Web3. Would love to get you onboard/feedback.
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if grey tribe is to have a serious presence in US politics, who's the best person to lead it?
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Is there any project that you currently view as a strong potential network state in the making, that is otherwise not recognizable to others. And what about it stands out to you?
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What apps or infrastructure have yet to be built out for network states to become successful?
Network StatesWhat technical fields should a young person focus on today? What sorts of skills should they acquire?
Network StatesLived in the SF Bay Area my entire life, now in my early 20s looking to migrate to a gray-friendly network state where I will be treated better. Any recommendations?
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What’s the findings from TNS survey?
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is the tech tribe takeover of SF an 'if' or 'when'? at a municipal govt thing someone was reading from Sanjana's Pirate Wires Dolores Park columns, i think PW has really galvanized something (and to a lesser degree Solana / @erik / @garrytan did with getting rid of Chesa), my activist spidey sense says it's 'when'
Network States@balajis.eth have you ever collaborated on writing a song before? Are there any writings of yours that you could picture in a song? Thank you for your words here at 1:08, resonating forever onchain https://zora.co/collect/eth:0x15c90d25a2ca66c4ea64e946b9a6f2cd277e5f3e
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friction is most talked about considering an average web user, a) how do you think that can be transformed for greater adoption, given the user journey most web3 products presently follow? b) following that, take this for instance, how do you replace a web2 messenger like telegram/signal with a web3 messenger?
What technological stack do we need to enable network states and what properties does it need to have?
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@balajis.eth what do you think is the biggest misperception about Web3 and DeFi by regulators and legislators?
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Among all these clever questions, I'm here doing a bit of idea farming, ha! So if you could plant the seeds for a cool crypto app, what would it be & why? What's the one interface you wish had existed before or at least needs a fresh coat of paint?
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@balajis.eth have you found any correlation between a countries household size and its citizens’ ability to adapt to co-living?
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@balajis.eth I have three questions. 1/3 Have you already signed up for cryonics or a similar longevity fallback plan (like a brainless clone of your body to get a head transplant later)? If not, why not?
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Have you read the Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer? Amazingly weird and yet deeply historical scifi series about earth in 2400s where humans join network state-like “Hives”. The hive names are great, too. This series has been my top scifi rec for years. I think you would dig them @balajis.eth
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Long decentralized social network = betting against Elon (X). Do you think this idea has merit? How true is this? @balajis.eth
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Now that you have Modi’s ears, if asked, how would you get India to embrace crypto and not commit the same mistakes of web2?
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What is your take on deliberative governance based on Citizens' Assemblies to be the backbone of the network state governance
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