Bob Murphy is great and this was a fun episode to listen to.
Do you agree with Mitchell that the international law is enough to protect something like that? He does mention drones at the end, so maybe there is more to it.
Then that bit on harvesting lithium from seawater. I just find it hard to believe that a small seasteading project can develop something like that. If it were economically viable, someone would have already done it.
Somewhere in the middle Bob mentions solar panels and Bitcoin mining.
Mitchell then invites people to become investors, and you can even pay with crypto. I just don't know. I really want them to succeed because seasteading is awesome, but part of me thinks all this is either naive or disingenuous. The houses are really just glorified tents.
But please Mitchell, go prove me wrong, I am rooting for you!
What do you think of seasteading and this project in particular?
That’s the key point. It’s probably not profitable in the conventional sense and would only make sense for weird freedom maxis.
True. My point is that it would probably be expensive, where expensive means outside of their budget. Even if they are profitable, I cannot imagine them having the money needed to conduct this research. This means they would need an investor to fund this. Now, why would I fund them instead of a research lab?
You might fund it if you're an eccentric billionaire
Sounds interesting. I'll have a listen later. I wonder how they deal with storms or large waves.
Mitchell says there are designs similar to oil rigs. I'm not sure if it's used in the current project or just one of the possible options, but basically there are these huge columns that stretch almost to the see floor, which help stabilize it. He says in those types of designs you don't even feel the waves.
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