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What if everybody in the world could vote in any country's elections, with an exponentially decaying weight set by shortest distance from boundary? So Chinese people would have say a 1/32 vote in American elections? Fourier transform global politics.
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i remember thinking of a nation-state as an interface between a set of rules and a (potentially non-contiguous) geographical territory
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I think the issue of sovereignty is that the rules mapping to the geography are themselves based on values, which have an ouroborian (or maybe more like a trefoil knot) relationship to epistemic and ontological precepts…
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