Oceans of Wisdom

yes but universities and churches have meaningful forms of sovereignity that i dunno Zara does not

you can't have it both ways

i would not expect the state to fund us anyway

but that is different

it is a funding battle

harvard retains the right to confer degrees, to perform medical research, to self-govern

is not really an attack on sovereignty

and even the harvard stuff in the usa

even more so in europe

universities have a long history of sub-sovereignity

even in the physical world

you can get pretty close to being self-governing in the right structures

I think so long as you pay your federal taxes and don't say "I am going to transfer some land to my new made up country"

a large nature preserve is a form of state

a large university campus and a micro-state are not far off

he and I have a bit of a disagreement on this

and he has enough of a brand that it is partially mobiel

which is of course great

+/-

dark talent with companies that need it

and can do matching

and specifically the fact that he is unbelievably well connected to SV and crypto

no he is huge on the dark talent topic

bc he thinks (I think) talent is more efficiently sorted / priced there

it is why I think he is less interested in the west

very very very broadly speaking

It is like Y Combinator for Asia

exactly, this is literally his thesis: I think Balaji is crossing up network state with low immigration requirement startup incubator to montise dark (latent third world locked) talent.

"what country are the meme cards located in"

and progressively more of the world economy

but 95% of my intellectual life is online

sure that is offline

wait but friends family food etc

my real life is online

I have close to zero interest in taking this on

so I am happy to pay (country x) to handle the waste disposal and army services so I have a place to sleep

into the digital world

that value is progressively migrating out of the physical world

don't you see that

the real state will be the internet

I mean I hope I don't insult anyone here (I am Christian) but even the literal son of god, said "eh, better pay the tax man"

The phrase is Jesus’ **“Render unto Caesar”** teaching: > “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” It appears in Matthew 22, Mark 12, and Luke 20. ### The situation Religious and political opponents were trying to trap Jesus with the question: **“Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar?”** At the time, Judea was under Roman rule. The tax was deeply unpopular. * Saying **“yes”** could make Jesus look like a collaborator with the Roman occupiers. * Saying **“no”** could expose him as a rebel against Rome. Jesus asked to see the Roman coin used for the tax. He asked whose image and inscription were on it. They answered: **Caesar’s.** He then gave the famous reply. ### What it means At the simplest level: * You may have legitimate obligations to civil government: taxes, laws, public duties. * But government does not own your conscience, soul, worship, or ultimate loyalty. Those belong to God. The answer therefore both **recognizes political authority and limits it**. Jesus is not saying, “Whatever Caesar demands, give it to him.” He is distinguishing between Caesar’s legitimate sphere and God’s much greater claim. ### The deeper wordplay The coin bears **Caesar’s image**, so it can be returned to Caesar. But human beings, according to Genesis, bear **God’s image**. So the person—the whole moral and spiritual self—belongs to God. That creates a subtle contrast: * Caesar may claim the coin. * God claims the human being. ### Was Jesus supporting separation of church and state? Not exactly in the modern constitutional sense. The statement has influenced ideas about separate religious and governmental spheres, but Jesus was not presenting a detailed political theory. His immediate achievement was to escape a dishonest trap while making a profound point: **Political authority is real, but it is not absolute.** Christians can obey government where appropriate, while refusing to treat the state, ruler, nation, or political ideology as sacred. So the core lesson is: **Fulfil legitimate earthly duties—but never give earthly power the loyalty that belongs only to God.**

exactly, the correct time to talk about these is between decades from now and never

now

but it is nonetheless basically unstoppable

it does not have to threaten the malaysian army

it has not had to invade London with an army

btc is the worlds most distributed bank

crypto networks are coordination networks

does not matter imho