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TSI is a great project, but the main function is to get noticed and spread ancap ideas IMO. Reason: There will never be new country on the ocean in a world ful
by ebaysucks 16y ago
TSI is a great project, but the main function is to get noticed and spread ancap ideas IMO.
Reason: There will never be new country on the ocean in a world full of nation states.
The reason there are lawless international waters 13 miles offshore is because there is no threat to incumbent nations there.
The moment Seasteads start floating around, the UN will abolish the concept of international waters thus rendering the entire project worthless.
- rdl 16y agoI think TSI/Seasteading as a technology could be successful, I just don't think the Seastead as Sovereign State thing is going to be viable in the next 20-50 years. Putting a Seastead in someone's 200 mile EEZ, with that country's blessing, to run a private marine park, offshore free trade zone, etc. seems quite viable. By being physically separate and potentially mobile, a host country would have a lot less ability or desire to regulate beyond basic things. There are also some inherent advantages to an offshore platform in a marine environment (there are some concrete platforms floating in the Great Barrier Reef of Australia to support scuba diving operations already). TSI does a decent job of splitting the technical (difficult, but reasonably feasible, and predictable) from the political, compared to most free-state projects in the past.