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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Oct 2019
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    Wild idea. Imagine all nation states and governing entities right down to city level go away, and all movement is governed by microvisas we all issue each other (with algorithmic aid) that apply to territories we happen to temporarily control in some way.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1186014605102862336 …

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    To first order, the degree to which your humanity is acknowledged by societal consensus is almost perfectly modeled by the territorial extent through which you can move pretty freely. I think this is why I react so strongly against walls/borders.
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    • Tools and Notions Vally Azar 🍄 Rahul Ramchandani wizden Guy Mackinnon-Little David o'Bedlam 𝕓𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕕/𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕘𝕠-𝕡𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕕 DOCTORA Malka Older Tony
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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Oct 2019
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        So for example, "basic human rights" = "we all grant each other basic presence rights in a personal-space spacetime bubble around wherever we happen to be"

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Oct 2019
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        This is already kinda de facto true. You may find the ranting, smelly homeless person on the sidewalk objectionable, but to the extent you peacefully go around them, you're recognizing their human right to personal space.

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Oct 2019
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        Under most circumstances, most of us (not even most 2nd amendment gun nuts) wouldn't instantly harm someone we found in our space (home, office) who wasn't an obvious clear and present danger. We'd challenge/talk to them, call the cops or something.

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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Oct 2019
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        Our basic mutuality-humanity-recognition instincts are actually far more humane than the design of laws and formal structures we've developed to codify/govern them. Design is inhumane because designing to the "limit of decency" is actually hard.

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      6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 20 Oct 2019
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        Trigger-happy gun nuts who would in fact instantly shoot anyone in their claimed territory in a shoot-on-sight mode are either people under orders from military/police regimes OR crazy people who take our space-governance systems a little too literally.

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      1. Matt Bell‏ @mappum 20 Oct 2019
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        There are more de facto examples of this, basically anything with key-controlled access (apartment buildings, individual homes, etc.). Real estate property rights are basically the de jure system for this, although with less granularity then what you're talking about.

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      1. Jack Coates‏ @puercomal 20 Oct 2019
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        See @m_older’s Infomocracy for three books of solid thinking about what might happen. And, they’re fun to read.

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      1. David o'Bedlam‏ @David_o_Bedlam 20 Oct 2019
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        Ship it to Stephenson or Gibson & get a licensing deal.

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      1. foo‏ @slashdottir 20 Oct 2019
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        Making friends == claiming territory?

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      1. Tools and Notions‏ @toolsandnotions 22 Oct 2019
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        Sounds awesome

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