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Science fiction nerds are gonna hate me for saying this but the Great Filter is that interstellar travel is probably more or less impossible and there is no reason to come up with any other explanation for that.

State Department posted and then deleted this by the way Obvious pattern from Rubio, he's still an amnesty propositional nation guy and no one can tell him to stop stepping on the rake

That is *the* question. Short answer The Internet is not a place, but there will be Internet places. We can print out the internet, using million-person online social networks to crowdfund offline territory, building first voluntary startup societies and eventually network states. Long answer China is a place, so it’s obvious. But it’s closed to everyone but the Han Chinese. The Internet is the only thing with economic scale comparable to China, and it’s open to everyone everywhere. If China is Apple, vertically integrated and closed, the Internet is Android, messier and more open. But the Internet isn’t a place, right? True, but Christianity is not a place. Yet there are Christian places: churches, cathedrals, entire countries with the cross on the flag. The “software” of Christianity was able to convert enough people to materialize upon the “hardware” of the land. Ok, so generalize that. The Internet is not a place, but there are already many Internet places: startup offices, datacenters, tech conferences, entire countries with Bitcoin as the national currency. The software of the Internet could convert enough people to materialize upon the hardware of the land. Extending the analogy, just as there are many Christian denominations, there are many Internet social subnetworks. Whatever subcommunity you belong to can organize and print itself out in the physical world. And where would that be specifically? Like Bitcoin, everywhere and nowhere. The key insight is the idea of the fractal frontier. List all the special economic zones, ghost cities, tech parks, deindustrialized towns, and abandoned villages around the world. There’s a lot of surprisingly developed empty space out there, thanks in part to the global fertility crash. And thanks to robotics, solar, and modulars, we may be able to develop yet more completely empty space. Anyway, that’s the idea. We can reopen the frontier through the Internet. In the same way we have hundreds of tech companies and cryptocurrencies distributed globally, we can use the Internet to found new startup societies and network states. Yes, it’ll take a while to get the new startup societies to million person scale, but it won’t take forever. And everyone doesn’t need to move there to change legacy societies for the better. After all, only 4% of the world moved to the US, and that changed the world. Basically, all the billion person digital networks were only founded in the last 25 years or so. We can scale quickly once the formula works. And it will likely work all over the world, because the Internet does.

That is *the* question. Short answer The Internet is not a place, but there will be Internet places. We can print out the internet, using million-person online social networks to crowdfund offline territory, building first voluntary startup societies and eventually network states. Long answer China is a place, so it’s obvious. But it’s closed to everyone but the Han Chinese. The Internet is the only thing with economic scale comparable to China, and it’s open to everyone everywhere. If China is Apple, vertically integrated and closed, the Internet is Android, messier and more open. But the Internet isn’t a place, right? True, but Christianity is not a place. Yet there are Christian places: churches, cathedrals, entire countries with the cross on the flag. The “software” of Christianity was able to convert enough people to materialize upon the “hardware” of the land. Ok, so generalize that. The Internet is not a place, but there are already many Internet places: startup offices, datacenters, tech conferences, entire countries with Bitcoin as the national currency. The software of the Internet could convert enough people to materialize upon the hardware of the land. Extending the analogy, just as there are many Christian denominations, there are many Internet social subnetworks. Whatever subcommunity you belong to can organize and print itself out in the physical world. And where would that be specifically? Like Bitcoin, everywhere and nowhere. The key insight is the idea of the fractal frontier. List all the special economic zones, ghost cities, tech parks, deindustrialized towns, and abandoned villages around the world. There’s a lot of surprisingly developed empty space out there, thanks in part to the global fertility crash. And thanks to robotics, solar, and modulars, we may be able to develop yet more completely empty space. Anyway, that’s the idea. We can reopen the frontier through the Internet. In the same way we have hundreds of tech companies and cryptocurrencies distributed globally, we can use the Internet to found new startup societies and network states. Yes, it’ll take a while to get the new startup societies to million person scale, but it won’t take forever. And everyone doesn’t need to move there to change legacy societies for the better. After all, only 4% of the world moved to the US, and that changed the world. Basically, all the billion person digital networks were only founded in the last 25 years or so. We can scale quickly once the formula works. And it will likely work all over the world, because the Internet does.

Star Wars is the great filter. If you walked away thinking they were popcorn films then you failed the test.

One of the tragic things about Revenge of the Sith is that they cut out half of the entire reason Anakin turned to the dark side. He turns on the jedi because he wants to save Padme, but in that moment he is still doing what he believes is necessary to save his wife from certain death. What actually seals his fate and *causes him to turn away from everyone, even those he loves* is seeing Obi-wan arrive on the ship with Padme, because to him, it confirms that they are having an affair. But why? Is that really all it took to get him to doubt his wife loves him? Showing up on a ship together? No, the reason he calls her a liar and shouts "YOU'RE WITH HIM!" before nearly killing her is that there's an entire subplot of the film that was cut. In this subplot, Padme is secretly setting up the beginnings of the rebel alliance. She has figured out that Palpatine is an evil dictator and wants to remove him from office. She doesn't tell Anakin about this, aside from vaguely hinting at it when she says "have you ever considered that we may be on the wrong side". Palpatine figures out what Padme is up to, but instead of directly cracking down on the rebels, he uses the fact that Padme is keeping a secret from Anakin to drive a wedge between them. Anakin knows *something* is up with her, but not exactly what. Palpatine exploits this by implying on multiple occasions that Padme is having an affair with Obi-wan. He tells Anakin that this is why he was kept off of the council. From Anakin's POV, Obi-wan is keeping him down, stealing his girl, preventing his ascent to Master (and from accessing secret info that only masters are allowed to read), and even stealing his valor by taking on General Grievous alone despite being the less powerful jedi. And the Jedi Order is enabling him to do so. So, when Obi-wan shows up on Mustafar with Padme, Anakin "realizes" that he has betrayed and killed children to protect someone who didn't even love him. He's lost everything and been played a fool. Palpatine seemed to be the only person in the universe who wasn't lying to him and trying to keep him down. Or so he thought.

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