Underwater is much hard than seasteading. I wouldn't call them equally doomed at all.
The free state project mentioned is an indication that this is actually viable. They want thousands of people to move to New Hampshire to change the state to be more libertarian. 700 already have.
I think that means you can get a few hundred people to move to a man made island, if the conditions on the island were acceptable.
The best outcome would be a confederation of city states that only interact via trading and mutual defense. There is essentially zero competition in government, and this would change that.
The free state project mentioned is an indication that this is actually viable. They want thousands of people to move to New Hampshire to change the state to be more libertarian. 700 already have.
The fact that they can almost get people to move to a different state is evidence that they can get people to move to new man-made islands? Seasteading would be great, but actually getting it started looks really difficult.
You're calling your libertarian credentials into question there; a _real_ libertarian (for extreme values of real) would reply that you do, it's just that in New Hampshire the pirates call themselves the IRS and the Department of Revenue.
The free state project mentioned is an indication that this is actually viable. They want thousands of people to move to New Hampshire to change the state to be more libertarian. 700 already have.
I think that means you can get a few hundred people to move to a man made island, if the conditions on the island were acceptable.
The best outcome would be a confederation of city states that only interact via trading and mutual defense. There is essentially zero competition in government, and this would change that.