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>For such an project to be successful you need to have some serious funding. Why should anyone fund this? <del>Not to support it, but Peter Thiel is a founder
by captn3m0 5y ago
>For such an project to be successful you need to have some serious funding. Why should anyone fund this?
<del>Not to support it, but Peter Thiel is a founder of the Seasteading institute[0], so funding shouldn't be a concern.</del>
>The Seasteading Institute is a nonprofit organization, based in California. It was founded in 2008 by activist, software engineer and political economic theorist Patri Friedman, grandson of Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman, and technology entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist Peter Thiel.
Looks like he gave up on it though[1]:
>In a 2017 interview with The New York Times, Thiel said seasteads are "not quite feasible from an engineering perspective" and "still very far in the future"
[0]:https://www.seasteading.org/about/ https://www.seasteading.org/about/
[1]: https://www.businessinsider.in/facebooks-mysterious-hardware-division-is-working-on-tech-to-read-brain-waves-that-could-let-users-send-thoughts-to-each-other/articleshow/56489719.cms https://www.businessinsider.in/facebooks-mysterious-hardware...