Exactly. If someone was going to do actually this, instead of fantasizing and appointing Financial Ministers, they would have to be doing international law research, engineering studies, raising millions of dollars, talking to real entrepreneurs....which is exactly what I've been doing at The Seasteading Institute has been doing for the last 3 years, to pave the way for ventures like this.
When something is usually done as a fantasy, I can understand why you'd pattern-match it to fantasy. But just because it's usually done wrong doesn't mean it can't be done right.
Not sure why you think they couldn't go to land. It is much easier to enter the US as a tourist or on a short-term visa than to get a work visa to live and work here. I think that coders living on a ship that isn't legally part of the US could still enter regularly on a tourist visa for meetings.
I dunno how you got that from our Intro page, we are quite explicit that seasteading is not about any one form of government but enabling more diversity and experimentation. Startup governments!
The philosophy of seasteading is explicitly not about pursuing any one vision of utopia, but building turnkey technology so that any group with a vision of a better society can go try it. The idea is not that we know what utopia is, but that by enabling a startup sector for government, by letting lots of different groups (Randists and others) try out their own visions of utopia, we will generate experimental evidence about what does and doesn't work. Instead of arguing about philosophy or dissing a proposed government because it resembles a videogame, we can compare real societies.
When something is usually done as a fantasy, I can understand why you'd pattern-match it to fantasy. But just because it's usually done wrong doesn't mean it can't be done right.