Archive for November, 2011

Culture and moral values in a technocracy – part 1

Over the course of our political debates on this site questions about culture have cropped up, so I thought the time had come to deal with this subject. It quickly occurred to me just how massive and all encompassing this question really is -the word “culture” could cover everything from movies, to sexuality or religion. [...]

Seasteading MAY be possible!

So after much talking and many preparations we have now carried out the last step of the early testing phase. The goal of this whole ordeal was: 1. To get a personal feel of the material. 2. Testing working methods. 3. Finding the man labour requirements. 4. Testing material strength (x MPa is a bit [...]

Scaling an empire

A lot of my blogs so far have dealt with the politics of a hypothetical state using a positivist technocratic system. However we do not have a state, so how do you start with a barely defended plot of land or seastead with nothing going on and start a state with all the stuff that [...]