Gabe Bankman-Fried, the younger brother of FTX's founder, tried to buy the island nation of Nauru to build a shelter to create a superhuman species in a lab.
Aren’t there stories about techlords (like Thiel) grabbing real estate in NZ? That’s a lot better: natural resources, common-law legal system, English language. Of course you can’t buy the entirety of NZ and declare yourself king, so it’s probably not EA enough.
Aren’t there stories about techlords (like Thiel) grabbing real estate in NZ? That’s a lot better: natural resources, common-law legal system, English language. Of course you can’t buy the entirety of NZ and declare yourself king, so it’s probably not EA enough.
@gerikson They have a king already anyway. For the time being, at least.
Touché.
So I’ve been told.