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For supercities I think you would need extreme advancements to leave a state model entirely behind though.

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Agree. Based on the Walled City situation I don't think you can avoid a state for the purposes of town planning and garbage collection.

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I'm not trying to analyze this based on any particular city constructin -- I'm much more interested in the general trend of humanity. In the context of massive gains in technology, do humans (or post-humans) tend to become less stupid and more self-regulating, or more dangerous and essential to regulate? In the asymptotic limit, surely one trend must eventually win out decisively -- I can't imagine a world of super intelligent post-humans that are literally forever obsessed with semi-but-not-really limited government federalism. Either liberty will become a first principle, or it will become too costly and meaningless.