That makes me wonder, can the aquapreneurs afford to fail? The kind of approach to failure you described works well in Silicon Valley, in a context where you're dealing with data and most of the time failure is a result of not living up to the promises you made or running out of money or not knowing your audience.

People report a bug in your update, you patch it. Nobody buys your app, oh well, better luck next time. The social and monetary price for failing is relatively low. This gives you the opportunity to not only learn from your mistakes, but also to make use of those lessons.

Now let's consider a hypothetical scenario where pirates attack your city, kill most of the men and kidnap all the women and children. Who's going to give you a second chance after that?

I hope I don't sound pessimistic. I just want to draw attention to the fact that the people who are trying to make seasteading a reality are going to have to deal with all the challenges involved in creating a modern city state, in addition to the purely technological and economic ones.