The article links to this blog post from when these lads made a notorious attempt to set up a city in Ghana. It's pretty good value.
For the record, Dr. Bawumia is an economist and a banker, and so how two white boys with no capital or credentials were able to get a meeting with him to discuss an urban planning project is anyone’s best guess. Perhaps Dr. Bawumia harbors a secret obsession with Minecraft that the nation is of unaware of.
Italy's current government is probably to their liking, but even they would be unlikely to give them what they claim to want. As for Morocco, it's just their colonial arrogance to think they can take over a country with a bit of cash and their superior white intelligence. A quick glance at wikipedia gives you a list of all the territorial disputes Morocco is involved with.
It's a pity Cathal Coughlan died a few years ago. He could get a whole album out of this.
Well, I don't know if we're more fixated on individual genius now than ever before. But it does feel like we're living through a retreat from democracy. I don't know what's coming next but it probably won't be good.
Actually a guy from Hong Kong had a plan to set up a new Hong Kong in Ireland a couple years ago right after the new laws/protests meant a lot of people decided to get out of Hong Kong. The Irish government politely stonewalled him. I had a vague notion it was meant to be in Meath, apparently it was meant to be "between Dublin and Belfast"....
"worked" seems like an overstatement. This wikipedia page is great, just a catalogue of grand plans that never got off the ground. It's easy to see why. They're effectively asking the host government to create a breakaway state within their own country which will get all the foreign direct investment and do all the economic activity. That is a recipe for a power struggle and a civil war which could end with the racist techmen as dictators of a banana republic.
Imagine graduating from Harvard and doing this. What was the point
No location picked let alone land bought or planning permission approved but they've already announced they're building a city. You can just say anything I guess if you're a hip right-winger.
it's a mechanical bloody turk!
not really relevant, but: a quote from an interview with hard-living 60s rock band the Pretty Things:
"..microdosing LSD [is] a practice May thinks may have been invented by a keyboard player who performed with the band in the 70s. “He used to have a little lick of acid every morning while standing on his head, doing his yoga exercises.” And did it help him psychologically, as latterday devotees of microdosing claim it can? “Well, no, not really,” sighs May. “He went pretty loony, to be honest.”"
Source: this article
Also all of their promo-images were AI generated which bodes really well.
God, I didn't even notice that. A pack of millionaires but they're too cheap to pay a concept artist.
Mr Yudkowsky is supposedly able to understand advanced maths but doesn't know what rounding is. I think we did rounding in 3rd or 4th grade....
I looked it up and apparently the safety check feature was invented by a couple of Facebook engineers who were on a research trip to Japan in 2011 and had to evacuate when the Fukushima disaster happened.
But according to that article, Facebook used unpaid volunteers from non-English-speaking countries to translate their UI and now I'm angry again.