Navigating Ukraine’s digital city within the context of Balaji’s Network State in conjunction with digital governance facilitated by smart contracts (and disputes settled by oracles)—run on interoperable blockchains and distributed ledgers; all in accordance with English Common Law. — In this episode of the Green Pill podcast, Balaji Srinivasan talks about his new book titled The Network State — I found this interview to be particularly informative (especially the last twenty minutes). I first heard about Bilaji from Aly Alexandra (she was the first person to put him on…

Sebs Solomon—July 15, 2022 — I see a connection with DARPAs influence campaign programs and research regarding social media (covered here) and Jonathan Ledgard’s interspecies currencies (covered by Leo and Alison on Silicon Icarus here and on Doom&GloomHQ here) because both have a much larger and similar ambition of perfecting affective computing and scaling computational…

Sebs Solomon—July 3, 2022 — Before I begin to write about how Goldman Sachs and BRICS (the Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa alignment) are related—I want to, first, go over a document titled A Decline of Superpower Influence, that was published by the U.S. Army War College in 1986. The author was Charles…

Sebs Solomon—June 23, 2022 — At some point last year, while I was reading a blog post by Vitalik Buterin about Futarchy — a theoretical government controlled by speculative markets — I came across Robin Hanson and the extropians. In the post, Buterin claims that a long-term benefit of technology and the concept behind decentralized…

Sebs Solomon — June 10, 2022 — This post can also be found on siliconicarus.org — thank you Raul Diego for publishing it. The Central African Republic (CAR) recently added Bitcoin as a legal currency, tokenized natural resources, and even created a “cryptocurrency economic zone” called Sango — following in the footsteps of El Salvador. The CAR…

Sebs Solomon—June 10, 2022 — I’m listening to an interview with Max Blumenthal and Jimmy Dore about the “Bilderberg Meeting” and Max’s attempt at getting into the Mandrin Oriental Hotel (in Washington, DC) where the meeting was being held. I’m giggling to myself while listening because they both seem so surprised that an entire hotel…

Sebs Solomon—May 17, 2022 — Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher who believed in ideas that can be described as “materialistic metaphysics”—based solely on the pursuit of pleasure. He defined pleasure as the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul. …

Sebs Solomon — May 13, 2022 — I was asked an interesting question on twitter recently and it ignited a topic of conversation that I had never explored from such an angle. A lovely gentleman named James asked: If the Roe vs. Wade argument is setting the stage for synthetic humans and will that spark the conversation…

Sebs Solomon—April 24, 2022 — I recently watched a presentation given by Erik Prince in 2017 at Oxford Union. He talks about the history of private military contracting in the United States, resurrecting the British East India Company by modeling private organizations after it, and creating a Development Finance Corporation (DFC) that is less like…