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Balaji recently said he was in favor of reducing military capacity. Whether that's a good idea or not, it shows that his preference with a cloud country is a no
by cjflog 6y ago
Balaji recently said he was in favor of reducing military capacity. Whether that's a good idea or not, it shows that his preference with a cloud country is a non-violent one.
One interesting aspect of a cloud country, or networked state, is that it would be distributed/decentralized. In theory it would be hard to attack in the real world as there may not be traditional borders at all. If if distributed globally it's certainly resistant to nuclear type attacks. A country with a capital "in the cloud" has a digital defensive structure similar to the Củ Chi tunnels from the Vietnam war.
- FooBarBizBazz 6y agoOh, certainly, I am sure Balaji would eschew violence; he wouldn't even bring up the topic. And violence would go against the core nonaggression principle of libertarianism. However, if his "county" is successful, it will need some ability to deter aggression, or it will need to declare fealty to one or more stronger forces. The Internet is also pretty centralized these days. Get a few CDNs and cloud service providers on-side and you can shut things down, unless it's extremely P2P from the beginning (and even then, that's a cat and mouse game that e.g. filesharing P2P has lost).