Ways to improve seasteading - attract the Amish

The Seasteading Institute recently published a survey asking people what would be the best use of their time.

There are a bunch of different engineering activities are proposed which range from full scale floating hotels to just basic R&D - hoping that people in the future will be able to make good use of the knowledge generated.

It strikes me that the big problem that they are skirting, and that has yet to be adequately solved is one of the most basic - food and fresh water. Both strike me as extremely difficult to get on the open ocean.

Solve those two problems, and essentially the whole problem is solved. That isn't to say that most people would want to live on a floating platform out at sea with no power generation and only a low variety food supply. The point is that such a platform would pass the "Amish threshold". With the right building blocks, one could build a culture (or appropriate one) that gets lots of people out on the sea.

Without a lot of people seasteading, there just isn't much hope of anything practical happening - such as incremental improvement to the point where ordinary people would consider trying out life on a floating platform.