The article makes it sound like Patri, et al., have forsaken seasteading, but this is not true. In particular, Patri is still chairman of the board of The Seasteading Institute (http://www.seasteading.org/about/staff-board-advisors/) and emceed the recent conference. More generally, most seasteaders are interested in improving governance generally, and view seasteading as only one possible route to achieving this goal. (Charter cities is another.)