So what do you do?

TLDR: New definition of value. New incentives.

A friend of mine — Claus G — invited me to a podcast conversation.

We decided to structure it into three separate parts to keep it on topic.

Loads of thoughts, insights, realizations.

Quality content and you are invited to have a listen:

Should we go into politics?

One of Claus’s ideas is about going into politics.

I was thinking about it too, after all now I’m 35 and can legally become a president in Poland, the country where I was born.

I was thinking about a global political party. In fact, similar initiatives already exist:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Parties_International
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Greens

Another cool idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Party

The party proposes an online form of liquid democracy that it calls “net democracy” based on the Internet. Their goal is to elect representatives who will reliably vote according to what the citizens decide online.

But the trouble is — I’ve lost hope in the old system.

Rather than fighting the old system…

Welcome to Liberland

President Vít Jedlička presents Liberland at Anarchapulco 2022 — https://fb.watch/cei0uPsYy7

Minimal role of the state. Private sector police, private sector courts, the only thing that is centralized — DIPLOMACY — it is better when the country speaks a unified voice.

Diplomacy is the core business of a country. That sounds sensible to me.

I’m optimistic about the future of Liberland.

The community is amazing.

Liberland can become the default location for all free-market enthusiasts.

In Dubai many people were familiar with it.

Photo session with Andrey Vorokov, the Liberland representative

New system (continued)

Planetary Council

I’ve been to COP23 24 26 and I genuinely believe that unanimous consensus is not scalable.

“yet the UN security council is powerless to act”

Priorities:

• new consensus
• new entities (including big tech due to their de factor power)

New system (continued)

Network State Genesis

How to Start a New Country

Examples of how things can evolve

Blogpost form 2020, as you can see things are evolving:

Summary of Mars’s environmental and economic work

Island — Homes — Cities — SEZ

We made some pivots along the way.

When the progress on the island was slowed down due to legal uncertainty, we started focusing on construction technology.

When doing housing, why not build an entire city?

When building city, why not establish SEZ (Special Economic Zone)?

• Island
• Housing
• Cities
• SEZ (Special Economic Zone)
• SEZ.network

SEZ.network was a way of doing global governance, get “foot in the door”, get a unified legal system across multiple jurisdictions.

One project leads to another

One approach is not working, then you try something new

The real skill is to know when to move on, and when to persevere.

Maybe I quit too early?

Maybe I carried on for too long?

Ended up not buying the island. Auctions are stressful and full of uncertainty.

Island DAO debrief

The debrief post explains many reasons. The most important one — my personal commitment, energy, attitude… I have just purchased a house in London and I was not ready to YOLO into the island 1000 miles away.

All the issues could have been resolved.

It was my commitment, energy, and attitude — I did not want it badly enough.

So what do you do?

These days everything is green, eco-friendly, reduces emissions, renewable energy, net-zero by 2050, good for the planet — aggressive PR greenwashing.

Starting from evaluating ESG reports of large companies.

Pricing negative externalities.

The comprehensive IMF report found that prices were at least 50% below their true costs for 99% of coal, 52% of diesel and 47% of natural gas in 2020.

Source: The Guardian

Rewarding positive actions.

A quick video describing the problem space:

I’m still working on the proof of concept, it is not ready yet.

Writing this blogpost gives me a full conviction this is the best use of my time, energy, effort, money.

This is not a distraction because it is aligned with many of my existing priorities.

Combining blockchain transparency game theory and my unique perspective.

New definition of value

New incentives

Using the language of money

Using the language of metrics

Solving The Generator Functions Of Existential Risk — Daniel Schmachtenberger

We shape the tools, then the tools shape us.

We shape the laws, then the laws shape us.

We shape the incentives, then the incentives shape us.

From the genesis.re founding document.

High conviction

“Money became the only thing objectively quantifiable and measurable (…) It became the measuring stick in how we organize everything (…) Money is just a way to convert from one form of value to another (…) Instead for optimizing for money, we make the value more objectively quantifiable” — check the full interview: https://youtu.be/oqeeZwQr7TQ— this snippet is around 12 minutes mark

If money is the only value…

…if the goal is maximizing GDP…

…then old dying people are good for business, healthcare (or rather “sickcare”) is 15–20% of GDP in the US

Quantifying the value of a whale — not a fringe science but IMF — https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2019/12/natures-solution-to-climate-change-chami.htm — International Monetary Fund

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2022–05–20 UPDATE (real world feedback)

G20: People Planet Prosperity

Source: https://twitter.com/g20org/status/1454408251626475523

WEF: Beyond GDP

https://www.weforum.org/focus/beyond-gdp

we need to find a new measure to assess the health of our economies and — more importantly — the people living in them

Related projects — global governance

Planetary Council

https://genesis.re