Applying to a Network State

The Ideology Vector 

Applying to Colleges, Companies, and Countries 

Immigration Policy is Hiring Policy 

The Crypto Profile (5) 

• What are the parts of a crypto profile?
  • Digital passport is what comes after digital currency
• How does a crypto profile work?
  • Based on ENS
  • Register an ENS handle
  • We want to populate this container with evidence of alignment, intelligence,
• Here’s what we want people to fill out
  • Bidirectional link to Twitter/ENS, with Keybase-style authentication
• Further reading
  • The Billion User Table
  • ENS Custom Records
  • Apps.ens.domains
• Call to action: set up crypto profile as part of augmented TNS application

The Application Process 

• Problem
  • to make the map real you need a tribe to make it real with you
  • You probably don’t want to live together with N random people from Twitter…
  • …but your N closest friends online — maybe so!
  • the age of social networks is over, the age of single-tribe networks is beginning
• Solution
  • All content is free, but community is behind login
  • You have to apply to join a network state — it’s not like 2004
  • The focus is no longer getting everyone online, it’s getting everyone aligned
• Why an application form, not a signup form?
  • From tech companies to tech communities
  • From social networks to single-tribe networks
    • Slack, Discord, Subreddits, forums, FB groups are single-tribe networks with a moderator
    • Twitter / 4chan are many-tribe networks
  • Our thesis is that N communities work where one community doesn’t
  • Link to Masnick, Noah Smith, etc
  • Essentially, all the pre-existing offline communities got networked together, creating many new friends and rivals, resulting in a new set of de facto borders — and the physical world is just going to have to catch up
• So you apply to
  • be a member (to attend meetups)
  • be an organizer (to host meetups)
  • be a founder (if we open this up — what would you build?)
  • And we put you on a waitlist
  • Set expectation: it may be weeks or months before we get back to you
  • But the meantime you can read all the free content
  • And view your status on your profile
  • No employees of US media corporations - you’ll be asked whether you are one, and can’t apply if you are
• What about founding your own network state?
  • Currently we have just one NS, but we’ll eventually have N
  • We’ll have a TNS builder eventually
  • That’s why we mentioned that in your application you can select being a founder [show visual]
  • But we want to get to a certain scale with the first network state before we open it up more broadly
• What are we filtering for?
  • Are these the first 10, 100, 1000, 10000 people to build a new country?
  • Very specifically, are these organizers as those will help build TNS in each location?
• The application selects for three things
  • Alignment — first and foremost, are they values aligned?
    • Values, personality, endorsements
    • Personality and values quizzes are important to figure out whether you fit with the others, and what groups might be better for you
    • Maybe pull scissor statements up front, if they’re necessary scissors
  • Intelligence — are they smart
    • Are they adding capital to the community — social or economic
  • Diligence — are they hard working and conscientious?
  • The alignment part will be the most different between different network states — someone who’s highly aligned with the vegan one will be disaligned with the carnivore one
  • Alternative phrasing: allegiance, intelligence, diligence
    • Allegiance is a strong word — pros and cons. One benefit of using it up front is that it does signal what the stakes are. Are you pledging allegiance to a new country in your head? That may mean at some point abandoning the old one, or having dual citizenship.
    • “Alignment, intelligent, diligent”
  • [alignment, ability, activity]
  • [ideology, ability, regularity]
• Call to action: fill out the TNS application