1/ Reading @vgr's "Breaking Smart: How Software is Eating the World" (https://breakingsmart.com/en/season-1/ ). He differentiates between the authoritarian approach of traditional industry (top down, high modernism) and the pragmatic approach of software (release often, fork, agile).
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2/ It occurs to me that statutory law (made by legislation) maps neatly onto the authoritarian approach, while common law is in the pragmatic tradition of constant evolution via immediate incremental improvements (as
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3/ Relatedly, competitive governance/seasteading is my attempt to fork utopianism from its tradition of abstract, pre-conceived high concepts and make a version based on rapid iteration in actual experimental societies. Hacker Utopia.
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4/ The world of "Hacker Utopia" is like Robert Nozick's "Utopia of Utopias" (http://amzn.to/2EKpizx ), except the diverse societies are DIY, forkable, open-source, and tinkerable ("I'm working on a patch for my city's patent laws")
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5/ Let's remember that while @lessig says "Code is law", also "Law is code". So let's develop it that way, so that software can eat the nation-state. (@pmarca facepalms?). (BTW, I'm asked often now by journalists how seasteading relates philosophically to the Valley. It's this.)
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