With no truly free places left in the world, freedom now depends on new technology creating new space, not on political change.

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  Law is tied to geographic location, so the ability to easily change one's location is the ability to change which laws one lives under.

  Srinivasan says law is tied to location, so being able to move is being able to choose which laws you live under. Thiel says there are no truly free places left, so freedom now depends on new technology creating new space rather than on moving through the old one. They agree exit is the mechanism and disagree about whether anywhere is left to exit to.

Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.

• Total freedom does not make you happy; constraints do. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson8 Aug 2022
• Technological determinism is only believable low down the tech tree; higher up we already choose which paths not to take. MNMichael Nielsen7 Apr 2026
• Most of the tech tree will never be explored by anyone at all, which is exactly why the choice of which direction to explore matters so much. MNMichael Nielsen7 Apr 2026
• Mapping out exactly what will happen in uncertain times probably locks you out of trying new things; leaders should frame the chaos so it feels safe to engage with. AVAmi Vora10 Sept 2026
• Digital worlds should carry fewer restrictions than the physical one, because acts that would do damage in reality do none there. MZMark Zuckerberg28 Sept 2023

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