Whatever happened to those network states? It's starting to look like it's them, UAE or Singapore

Well, the network states were supposed to be a social thing rather than a place, no? Free Cities movement is more focused on actual, physical places.

Die a hero or live long enough to become the bad guy. "Open Standards for AI Cost Management" Open, but only at the organisational level. Throwing their hat in the ring for a shot at becoming the OPEC of AI.

$10k year for nosebleed seat membership.

I have come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter. What matters is that people believe quantum computers will break encryption. And pulling that lever on their seeded fears, via subterfuge, backdoors, surveillance, and maybe a _little math, is too valuable for it not to be pulled.