Your daily reminder that "in a nutshell, so-and-so said..." should raise flags, even when you're reading that line in an ostensibly reputable publicationhttps://twitter.com/balajis/status/1187151642572906497 …
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Did you feel like "secession" was an unfair way to summarize Balaji's proposal? “build an opt-in society, ultimately outside the United States, run by technology" I went into the article expecting that to be a misrepresentation (because Anand does that a lot) but it seemed apt?
I think an exodus is meaningfully different from a secession, with one implying a large movement of willing actors & the other implying an exit by something that is or akin to a state, with presumably far from total buy-in. The connotations are appropriately worse for the latter
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@balajis’ proposal as “secession” in a talk i gave several years ago, was pretty plain i think abt what that did and didn’t mean. the audience seemed to understand this as “secession”. slides 3 to 7 here, was this a mischaracterization?https://www.slideshare.net/SteveWaldman/engineering-economic-security … -
Yeah, I think you're at least taking quite a lot of artistic license with your usage e.g. herepic.twitter.com/BBVizaPnmb
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Secession is a territorial issue: it's people 'exiting' a polity but 'keeping the land'. Effectively an annexation by act of (civil) war. Big deal. Mass emigration is not territorial: it's people 'exiting' ... but leaving the land behind. Annoying but not a huge deal.
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@balajis talks mostly in vid about emigration (islands, seasteads, Mars) when exiting is raised. Not secession; emigration. But also mentions 'exiting' to Reddit, which blurs that line. Also talks about building tech to 'reduce barriers to exit'-y things that are not emigration. - Show replies
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