Free State Project
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Free State Project is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between July 05, 2021 and February 10, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Maybe you’ve heard of the Free State Project”; “foot voting coordination efforts , eg the Free State Project”; “compacts for political action (eg Free State Project)“. It most often appears alongside Charter Cities Institute, GiveWell, How Asia Works.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: July 05, 2021
- Last seen: February 10, 2024
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Related Pages
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- Charter Cities Institute (2 shared issues)
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- GiveWell (2 shared issues)
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- How Asia Works (2 shared issues)
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- Metaculus (2 shared issues)
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- 1DaySooner (1 shared issues)
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- 23andme (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Book Review (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grant (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
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- African School of Economics (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Maybe you've heard of the Free State Project. Some American libertarians, tired of always losing at everything, decided to all move to the same state, so they could be a substantial part of that state's population and maybe win some elections or at least be able to commiserate with each other in person. They chose New Hampshire, 5000 people moved (with 15000 more claiming they'll move eventually) and they managed to elect a dozen or so state representatives (including a friend of mine who has some amazing stories). In general the project seems to have gone well, plus or minus some bear-related snafus.
Inline links: Free State Project, bear-related snafus
1: A “fortified essay” on foot voting coordination efforts, eg the Free State Project. “I believe that there's a 60% chance that the question, ‘Will a coordinated foot voting effort intentionally move 10,000+ residents to a single American state by 2030?’ will resolve positively.”
Inline links: foot voting coordination efforts
Jordan Braunstein and Tetra Jones, $34,000 to work on assurance contracts. These are the general case of what Kickstarter does - coordinate people who all agree to do something if enough other people agree to make it worth their while. They want to branch out from Kickstarter’s funding-focused model into different forms of contract - for example, compacts for political action (eg Free State Project), dominant assurance contracts that incentivize people to overcome transaction costs, and “contigently anonymous” contracts where people can hide their identity until a certain threshold gets reached. Jordan and Tetra applied separately to start their own platforms, but have agreed to to work together on spartacus.app; you can contact them here if you want to help or participate in testing. I’m aware that another site, EnsureDone, is already trying something similar4. I’m funding Spartacus as a backup, but I like Ensure too and they should feel free to contact me if I can help in any way.