The key is to go cloud first, land last. Build community first. Don’t worry about real estate. That can be solved once you have sufficient numbers of people with aligned values. Negotiate a deal with a state to buy land in the middle of nowhere with specified laws. Then move.
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Can I join your city? As long as it’s not in SIMS I’m down

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The Silicon Valley which Fred Turner talks about happened very much driven by greed rather than with the goal of establishing a civil society or for that matter even intellectual curiousity. Key tenet of
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What if you can select humans based on their reputation score? Just like how some countries allow qualified immigrants.
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The medicine/healthcare part is tricky.
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Set aside funds to incentivize personnel to come? Travel out of state for more advanced procedures?
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My only fear is that living in a real world subreddit may not be as much fun as browsing it

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Yeah! It's fun because it's a painless way to experience weird stuff. If it's materialized, it'll be dreary.
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I think about building new cities in my head almost daily.
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Ditto ! This is a purpose worth pursuing.
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