# vinay gupta | be you. (part 4 of 8)

> One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [172], part 4 of 8. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/<id>.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages.

## Where this source sits

- Source: document (Web page), 2014-05-22 (publication data), https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/. Text: document text
- On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009), before the ledgers step (Ethereum launch, 2015).
- How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Third-party digest of his talks; index into the plan's ideas.
- Career works it belongs to:
  - Hexayurt (2002): A public-domain disaster shelter made from whole 4x8 building panels with one diagonal cut.
  - Laziness, Impatience and Hubris (2011): Talk at c-base, Berlin: Larry Wall's three virtues of a programmer applied to building, by a hackitect.
  - A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (2014): His "very conservative vision" for global change: six or maybe eight machines everyone on earth should... (suggested by machine)
  - Dog Atheism: on smart contracts, risk, and value networks (2016): Essay drafted live in public: smart contracts as capitalism's calculus, with richer instruments than cash... (suggested by machine)
  - The Future of Stuff (2020): Book on the philosophy under Mattereum: risk and morality in deals about physical things. (suggested by machine)
- Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of:
  - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy.
  - STAR-TIDES: The National Defense University project and the papers around it.
  - fiction draws on: The work that fed the fiction.
  - hexayurt builds: Hexayurt variants, many designed and built by the community.
  - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum.
  - nuclear / panflu: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans.
- Ideas developed here: 30-year plan (Hexayurt; target revised upward, now 300 million)
- Topics: Tweets & captured social feeds (39%)
- Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Leashless (238 here; 23 sources in all, earliest dated 2009, 1 undated); programmer capitalism (4 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); basic income (11 here; 21 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); interoperability (9 here; 17 sources in all, earliest dated 2009); ecocide (4 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2010); basic needs (8 here; 15 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 2 undated); contracts (49 here; 147 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 3 undated); equity crowdfunding (7 here; 14 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); smart contracts (31 here; 110 sources in all, earliest dated 2014, 2 undated); Mother of Hydrogen (4 here; 5 sources in all, earliest dated 2012)
- The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): Mattereum; smart contracts; tokenization; Silicon Valley; Shatner; ICO; Internet of Agreements; cypherpunk; collectibles; DAO
- Importance: core-text score 0.26 (1.00 is the top), number 307 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation
- Related sources:
  - [752] [Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md): same career work: Hexayurt
  - [711] [Vinay Gupta – Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and... (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/711.md): same career work: Hexayurt
- On the same works, just before: [698] [Vinay Gupta - Hexayurt Project - End Homelessness |... (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/698.md); [700] [Vinay Gupta - Basic Income | London Real (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/700.md); [316] [Vinay Gupta - Maker Faire UK - Newcastle 2014 (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/316.md)
- On the same works, just after: [73] [A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine | The... (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/73.md); [315] [Three Bureaucracies of Sharing: Owners, Managers and... (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/315.md); [314] [EMF2014 hexayurt talk Hexayurts, Distributed... (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/314.md)

## Reading it

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Cite as: vinay gupta | be you., document, 2014-05-22, https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [172], https://guptaoption.com/texts/172.md.

## Passages, part 4 of 8
[passage 40](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) if came to fruition later.. wanted to knew when came up with it.. like a primitive form of a hash function.. a way of dating your hunches... 49 min – there’s always been use inside frameworks... economy turns into culture.. spending is speech... and protected by free speech rights... whole things in freefall 52 min – meta structures.. the tools cypher generated were point to point... https (?) was cypher punk.. 54 min – people thought bitcoin was illegal – ie: satoshi – guy who created it... leaderless resistance.. actually rapidly embraced by govt/companies.. state has stopped thinking of this as a threat... state just seems to be adapting... ie: govt funds tor... seem more eager for this stuff to mature so they can use it 1:03 – if you want to see what govt has anxiety about – look at occupy 1:05 – only a matter of time that someone from silicon valley decides running world is better from white house... (steve, eric, elon) 1:08 – american govt meant to be a govt of laws not men – ie: why president has little power 1:09 – if majority of people didn’t want stuff.. there would be mass riots et al.. ... the military industrial complex.. is representation of what average american wants... 1:10 – bad side of programmer capitalism.. bad robots et al... we’re already seeing programmer capitalism.. called nsa.. via our mobiles.. 1:12 – whoa.. history of banana republic... up side... law encoded w/ software.. and software makes decisions most of time.. faster.. more objective... stable/predictable/transparent... put all emphasis on accurate inputs.. what if.. we put all emphasis on inputs that matter... to a human .. to being... self-talk as data ness 1:15 – ie: on voting for bush again..showing most are ok with things.. so... the voting system isn’t working.. it’s spinach or rock ness... nobody wants a fairer works except poorest of humanity.. which is 50% of humanity.. when people say want a fairer world.. usually means they want to be richer... bubble of privilege is collapsing.. and those benefitting from it.. white males.. are suffering most.. real revolution possibility of blockchain .. can show real evidence of how world works.. first facts.. then the decisions... ___________ @JohnLilic The homie @ leashless elucidating 2016.transmediale.de/content/vinay-... on how we mechanistically reach post capitalism # ethereum twitter.com/rasmusvuori/st... ________ “decentralization of infrastructure is more or less a prerequisite fr any kind of non-violent revolution” https://t.co/Ushvjns8TZ @leashless Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/crisortunity/status/697159485161414661 ben vickers interviews vinay jan 2016 asking about hexayurt what is the simplest thing that could possibly work? mech simple enough _____________ feb 2016 @leashless 2/13/16 6:50 AM Brain fried. Rate of change significantly exceeds my capacity to integrate models. But I can’t let my thinking become incoherent. No way. But right now I feel completely fucked as the mental models tear down and rebuilt, neurons thrashing for coherence. The future is weird/hard don’t chase/cling-to it vinay.. let go in order to see.. the irrelevant s. like you taught me. _______

[passage 41](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) of change significantly exceeds my capacity to integrate models. But I can’t let my thinking become incoherent. No way. But right now I feel completely fucked as the mental models tear down and rebuilt, neurons thrashing for coherence. The future is weird/hard don’t chase/cling-to it vinay.. let go in order to see.. the irrelevant s. like you taught me. _______ @leashless I’ve lived as an alien my entire life. If I communicate in the forms natural to me, there are four humans I can converse with. _________ How and Why to Sell Ideas https://t.co/Cuzl3pxJtP – Interesting presentation by Vinay Gupta @leashless Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/AlexanderFisher/status/698670021069955072 jan 2015 – Ethereum ÐΞVcon-0: How to Sell Ideas the more ethical the how.. the more you can take it at a high route path the closer you are to truth.. the more deliverable the product becomes..of something that has truth at every level once you’ve got a piece of news like that (hexayurt) you’re not in marketing bus if you like it or not... capitalist discourse about product.. lying to people to get enough money to get something done.. but what’s done is 2% of what you said you’d do.. donor driven aid ... because nobody really wants to think about ie: aids in africa.. no one pays attention.... transparency eaten away at every level.. delivery becomes corrupt once you try to achieve social change through tech means... everything you do becomes exponentially more difficult.. people hole you at high standard... tiny early decisions.. dominate... ie: wikipedia.. 5 min – changing behavior is name of game.. that decision point is function of all of your work ideas are bigger than products (transactional exchange between two people) – things don’t have a future.. fixed in time and space.. ideas.. ripple through reality... idea gets bound into the culture.. i think blockchain is like that.. ideas are not monopolies... what if we jump ship from this bell curve.. a do over 16 min – getting to point where enough people can decide if this is something they want – early adopters.. rest wait to see how it plays out.. so getting processing easy for decision making 19 min – on the need to constantly be explaining to people – his list.. make sure you understand and can explain it.. what if we don’t have to explain anything... what if we just do it.. model rather than tell.. design the change so that it’s not reliant on an explanation.. 22 min – hardest part.. everyone has their own world model 24 min – it’s all strategy because we’re small and the world we want to change is huge 26 min – on logo.. strategic.. do we need a logo? 31 min – it’s people not like us that will bring the next jump... ok then.. not chess.. not money.. kind of web sites.. but self talk as data.. 32 min – show people a diff way to do things.. ie: physical short cut; get money to india.. so..

[passage 42](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) 26 min – on logo.. strategic.. do we need a logo? 31 min – it’s people not like us that will bring the next jump... ok then.. not chess.. not money.. kind of web sites.. but self talk as data.. 32 min – show people a diff way to do things.. ie: physical short cut; get money to india.. so.. what if we’re showing people another way to live .. ______________ feb 2016 parts of stream: @leashless So here’s the bottom line: there’s a critical window while the blockchain story is soft, uncertain when it could be tied to global democracy o get that to hang together, though, it has to be viewed in terms of supersidiarity – what can *only* the global level do? Carbon etc . I just don’t have the time, energy or resources to do the synthesis. There simply is not enough of me to go round this time. I dislike that. To get to this thing in time to weld it into the blockchain story properly I’d need to stop almost everything else I’m doing, and Deep Dive. @jacklord @ leashless But what a powerful idea, to simply say, we could also route around this failing territory so imagine there’s a nother way.. that many pieces seem to be falling into place for.. ie: you at this point, ycombinator willing to try, refugee and/or many other cities/places seemingly ready.. I’m partly assuming that documenting the flow of thought as I go will be feedstock for later software systems too self talk as data...as the day. from all of us _____________ smart contracts et al.. what if our thinking about security, voting, measuring exchanges, contracts, property...is what’s getting in the way. what if they are (could/should be) irrelevant (gupta roadblock law) . we have the means now – so why don’t we use tech to coordinate/regroup/re self organize us.. rather than making b more efficient... what if our thinking about consensus is what’s getting in the way. i’m seeing Louis ‘s magnets pulling the puck. ie: why is there a puck. we have the means now – so why don’t we use tech to coordinate/regroup/re self organize us.. rather than keep on forcing us to consensus.. ________________ Realizing that I’m completely burned out and I need a weekend off. Which is a shame because I’ve got 42 emails to write & presentation to do . @ leashless Stay strong, my friend. First, find your center... @ kikilo How precisely do you think I got into this mess in the first place, my friend? ______________ feb 2016 Blockchains from Amsterdam: by far thr best talk I’ve ever done. https://t.co/1OMIdvJyNL thanks @mbauwens @jaromil @brakkegrond thanks guys! Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/702978125538402310 (audio file.. can’t play... – hopefully video/audio out soon..from fiberfestival https://twitter.com/FIBERFestival http://codedmatters.nl/ @leashless 2/26/16 3:15 AM . @thejaymo a mirror of Blockchains from Amsterdam, the best talk I’ve ever done mirror.explodie.org/blockchains-fr... or two s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.howtoliv... mirror works.. notes: 1950 ish – a de militarized computer – 1970- xql – math

[passage 43](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) done. https://t.co/1OMIdvJyNL thanks @mbauwens @jaromil @brakkegrond thanks guys! Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/702978125538402310 (audio file.. can’t play... – hopefully video/audio out soon..from fiberfestival https://twitter.com/FIBERFestival http://codedmatters.nl/ @leashless 2/26/16 3:15 AM . @thejaymo a mirror of Blockchains from Amsterdam, the best talk I’ve ever done mirror.explodie.org/blockchains-fr... or two s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.howtoliv... mirror works.. notes: 1950 ish – a de militarized computer – 1970- xql – math to bring order to chaos... create a multi dimensional cube.. abstract alg allows to take look at space in that cube... pull data out into something that looks like a spreadsheet... so revolutional.. took people 5 yrs to accept it 70-90 – xql ness.... working on machine wore white coat.. fibers could affect.. so very fragile..this set a mindset for data bases.. until begin of 80s right around 84 get micro computer revolution – these are appliances.... then lotus 123 first spreadsheet... computer w/ ledgers starts in 80s... imagine the disorientation... 1990 – get networking as practical for work – no web yet.. the notion thing in doc could open doc wasn’t there yet web – document centric – paper simulators – connection between data bases and doc centric.. is extremely weak... getting data into doc’s hard... getting docs into data even harder.. mid 95 early 96 – people realize.. could make money in internet.. just no security... another 5 years till we get a solution w/encryption.. we forget so quickly what was possible/impossible when tech arrives 2010 – more or less all basic stuff there... roughly when bitcoin gets started... via cypher punks.. enormous prevalence of autism... important to know the people building this why do we need govt.. building a central bank for internet... satoshi... left w/artifact ... before data bases were similar.. but never communicated w/network.. not able to create shared model of reality... (ie: B keeping us separate) distributed data – both like a data base and like a network – completely fused so have single shared story of reality spread across all machine.. when changes one place changes everywhere... first did was central bank of internet.. single global currency.. like they re invented gold.. get up to where we are.. 2015- 2016 – crazy how it works.. but even crazier how our govt works... ie: every four years et al.. don’t assume because the new stuff is weird that it’s any weirder than the old stuff... tiny pieces of business logic.. pulled up on a block chain.. smart contract platform.. all kinds of simple/useful things.. still only at very beginning of story... bitcoin 7 transactions a sec, ethereum something like 20 now a scaled blockchain.. one that does 100 000 to mill transactions a second (like ie: visa) onto surface... ie: entire iot onto blockchain... like microsoft did w/azure.. could turn into global knowledge resource.. instead of nonsense you get every time you talk to your bank. have something constituting by will of people and serves their purpose this is where we have to separate sci fi from reality... if you tach computer to govern

[passage 44](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) (like ie: visa) onto surface... ie: entire iot onto blockchain... like microsoft did w/azure.. could turn into global knowledge resource.. instead of nonsense you get every time you talk to your bank. have something constituting by will of people and serves their purpose this is where we have to separate sci fi from reality... if you tach computer to govern resources.. make life easier.. but not obvious this is replacement for gen ledgers (?) of govt... diff neurological make up of people.. we’re having discussion about what kinds of minds run society... been going along forever... ie: can arts and sciences get along... turbulence not well described because happening so fast... if you want picture.. have to go back to cyber punk written as sci fi... we would have much better grip if looked into that.. what we mean as a society banished from polite company... what we see .. getting message across diff than perspective to technicians diaologue about how tech fits into society is going to be a dialogue about class.. ie: lawyers or tech’s.. both are wrong.. has to be run by people... reawakening of sci fi and tech... we’ll be led by .... so challenge is to start reading cyber punk... if you share myths start to understand tech ___________ 2017 will be a major year for blockchain disruption via Ethereum — @leashless Vinay Gupta on Virgin Podcast https://t.co/aG0gFkErlx Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/cryptobelle/status/705027895253544964 2 trends in tech – 1\ second wave blockchain adoption.. bitcoin semi stable.. 2\ ethereum – more general/flexible.. do what bitcoin did for money for everything else: insurance, lending, identity, also more efficient and cheap to run 2016 – yr of the prototype...lots of games... a few p2p financial instruments.. this yr impact quite subtle.. i think next year. huge virtual reality – wanted to be a world builder in vr – but nothing happened for 25 yrs... now – 5-6 big companies that have made it.. fb, sony, samsung, microsoft, .. all launching this year... 5 bill ish.. christmas 2016 – vr christmas... lots of games and office productivity going into civilization disorientation – really serious disruption 23 min – on vr opening up human imagination... rediscovery of dreams.. that other people can enter into... make art become more compelling than it is now 24 min – problem communicating what it is they’ve done.. the brilliant autistic people creating the tech... implication is very odd – is social networking popular.. because those making it aren’t comfortable in real world... going through a shift.. where socially dominant isn’t psychopaths or sociopaths anymore but autistics.. see it now as disorder but in 20 yrs might be seen as kind of intelligence.. 27 min – message to my young self -read more history... realize conditions you are born into ..aren’t natural state of world.. just a temporary condition ... notion that the things you happen to have around you when you grow up are not a fixed thing.. but temporary.. 28 min – read old sci

[passage 45](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) be seen as kind of intelligence.. 27 min – message to my young self -read more history... realize conditions you are born into ..aren’t natural state of world.. just a temporary condition ... notion that the things you happen to have around you when you grow up are not a fixed thing.. but temporary.. 28 min – read old sci fi... for what we could be today... ___________ w/in steam convo.. @leashless define success. That’s a first step. My definition: in the year I die, no human dies of hunger. That’s my definition. ____________ mar 2016 – stream bits on capitalism ness @leashless Men don’t generally experience women as powerless or weak; look at male humour about “your life is over” at marriage, or divorce as ruinous. Once you really get that men feel helpless and trapped by society too, and often see women as controlling and enforcing in emotional terms? Then you can understand that in this system there are simply no winners: you have to change the fundamental deal, feminism cannot be enough. Unless your definition of “patriarchy” includes men living in fear of their wives use of emotional violence, you have not seen capitalism. The woman punishing her husband for losing a high paying job is as much his boss as his boss is: men perceive they work for women and State. Capitalism inside of the family unit is not often discussed, but children demanding toys as tribute hits broke men as hard as a tax bill. The prison of expectations around work and money are to men what domestic roles were for women. Capitalism is our enemy, not each-other. Feminism cannot fix capitalism. Not even close. And most of what comes between men and women is capitalism, not gender: the cost of children Not a topic I’m going to discuss much in future, but remember that I said this here and now. These things only visible for flashes going up. . @ AlesPickar lesbian domestic violence stats suggest a nuclear family is a en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_... which brings too many humans to violence _______ bits from mar 16 stream (random order): @leashless 3/16/16 5:42 AM Redeeming the situation can only be done in two ways: take a little back out in the form of a house and freedom or build a salvation machine or perhaps both... via short and y comb bi and.. (just one of many options – for both) 3/16/16 5:49 AM . @smithsam I’d be the “poor man’s elon musk” – he’s building space ships and I’m building tin can stoves for the billions left behind. tin stoves..? i thought you were building a salvation machine... 3/16/16 5:55 AM I will say this: efficiently moving money from type-A alpha male gorilla pockets to efficient cooperator nerd tribalism is super effective. effective..? perhaps if we disengage from money... @elonmusk (vinay rt) 2/16/16 2:39 PM Interesting to think of physics as a set of compression algorithms for the universe. That’s basically what formulas are. @leashless 3/15/16 5:33

[passage 46](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) machine... 3/16/16 5:55 AM I will say this: efficiently moving money from type-A alpha male gorilla pockets to efficient cooperator nerd tribalism is super effective. effective..? perhaps if we disengage from money... @elonmusk (vinay rt) 2/16/16 2:39 PM Interesting to think of physics as a set of compression algorithms for the universe. That’s basically what formulas are. @leashless 3/15/16 5:33 AM @kevin_osterling @aantonop oh so very, very hard to count “the people” in an online environment. Identity management is very difficult. 3/14/16 9:15 AM . @charmermark @siemvaessen I guarantee you the answer is going to be “no” The question is “are they going to frame the question correctly?” 3/13/16 7:31 PM . @browningphilip1 I think the core of the digital capitalism thing is *finally* having enough computer power to accurately represent value. these go together in my mind.. the ginormously small ness of what matters.... if we can only find our focus on that __________ @leashless Most of my co-workers worry that we are not moving fast enough. I worry that we are not going in the best possible directions. huge. ginormous. huge. ______________ parts of stream on ai and professionalism and trade/transactions... @leashless 3/29/16 5:53 AM @jwildeboer @fabianacecin @agentGav Information asymmetry goes away in panopticon environments, which is where we are basically headed. thinking of Rushkoff ‘s recent convo with Marina – if everyone knew ness.. nothing hidden ness 3/29/16 6:00 AM . @agentGav @jwildeboer @fabianacecin Well, let’s think about that: if we can accurately track environmental and social costs of production? why must we track costs...? 3/29/16 6:00 AM . @agentGav @jwildeboer @fabianacecin That’s tooling that would make enforcement of global social justice possible: that’s a new possibility. ? – enforcement of global justice..? isn’t that what we’ve been trying to do.. ie: shock doctrine ness et al.. perhaps.. gershenfeld something else is only way to social justice.. ie: not enforcement.. rather.. preoccupation.. ness 3/29/16 6:01 AM . @agentGav @jwildeboer @fabianacecin Whether we have the political will to implement that I don’t know. Maybe over 50 years. Maybe far less. @leashless 3/29/16 6:19 AM This is one of the most insightful things anybody’s ever said to me on twitter. Well said, @fabianacecin twitter.com/fabianacecin/s... Fabiana ________ feb 2016 – promise of blockchain talk: https://vimeo.com/161183966 data – document – encryption people building this.. high on cypherpunk.. high on autism..wondering why we need govt fuse network and data into blockchain hosting life bits first thing done – central bank – reinvent gold – imagine 2 and 3rd acts... if i described how your govt works.. it’s even worse... don’t assume the new is any weirder than the old. old is just new stuff you got used to – smart contract is 3rd big integration next is scaled blockchain – from 20 per sec to mill per sec.... single computer surface tension of what world looks like to technologists and rest of us... ie: tech could overcome govt... what we’re really having is a discussion about is class..what kinds of minds run

[passage 47](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) new stuff you got used to – smart contract is 3rd big integration next is scaled blockchain – from 20 per sec to mill per sec.... single computer surface tension of what world looks like to technologists and rest of us... ie: tech could overcome govt... what we’re really having is a discussion about is class..what kinds of minds run our society.... getting message across.. is difficult part... since ww2 when sci fi banished from lit genre... not in polite society.. if you want to get this.. and you should.. it’s the tech running world.. read cyberpunk.. get into heads of people who created it.. read their mythology.. what they were thinking when created it... __________ oct 2015 – The Man Whose Job It Is to Constantly Imagine the Total Collapse of Humanity in Order to Save It https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/global-resilience-guru There’s also no mechanism inherent in the nation state for handling genuinely global issues. [..] Is it right to say that a lot of your work lies in trying to get away from centralised power structures? Some people want to fix inequality and centralisation. But when we try to fix inequality, 1) it keeps coming back, and 2) it often leads to mass murder (Stalin, Mao, etc.) So stop and think about this for a moment: what if the objective isn’t to level out the game between winners and losers, but to make life as good as possible for the losers? If we accept that most people will be losers at some point in their lives, how do we design a good life for losers, for the mediocre, the untalented, the unlucky – for every single human being, no matter how “undeserving” they may appear to some means-testing meritocratic aid bureaucracy. This is “decentralisation” certainly, but not in the usual sense that people use the word. Refugees, homeless people, disaster victims, migrants, all these people often face the same basic challenges: staying warm, staying cool, avoiding hunger, thirst, illness and injury. For those of us left scrambling in the dirt – that’s a billion people today in the slums, and another two billion barely making a living on tiny little mud hut farms all over the world. For those people to make a decent life, that has been my goal. I don’t know how to fix inequality. But I do think we can – with safe, available, even cheap technology – stamp out nearly all of the suffering that poverty causes. As Gandhi said: “Poverty is the worst form of violence.” So my decentralisation is at the very bottom. [..] There’s a huge leap of imagination to take our existing physical resources and purpose them into this kind of pseudo-utopian project, but it’s only a leap of imagination. We have all the technology, right here, right now, this very day. [..] In my novel Mother of Hydrogen a lot of the action is set in a temporary city which became permanent, called Harappa after an ancient Indian hill fort. The economics

[passage 48](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) resources and purpose them into this kind of pseudo-utopian project, but it’s only a leap of imagination. We have all the technology, right here, right now, this very day. [..] In my novel Mother of Hydrogen a lot of the action is set in a temporary city which became permanent, called Harappa after an ancient Indian hill fort. The economics of building essentially countries from scratch are a lot better than you would expect: it’s dirt cheap to provide a population with all the denim and bicycles they could possibly need, but once again, you have to be a soft paternalist about this to get the job done at those prices. [..] When we admit that the allegedly-temporary status of “refugee” is actually the permanent status of “displaced, never to return” maybe we could start to design a lifestyle that works cheaply enough for the international community to continue support, while at the same time producing a high standard of living to the point where refugees have some real utility. [..] My proposal, along those paths, is that we turn the refugee camps into universities. If we won’t let them get jobs and work, let them get PhDs on the internet and become huge academic centres of excellence. There is no problem in this world that access to 150 million more educated human beings would not improve, and maybe in the long run they could fan out across the globe as school teachers. perhaps what we all need – city as uni ness... as the day.. imagine 7 billion plus people doing that... couldn’t that dance.. dance..? wouldn’t we have/be enough...? [..] The trigger event was seeing the Cosmic Trigger stage play in London. Robert Anton Wilson, without who’s work I’d probably have killed myself in my twenties (I mean that quite seriously) lost a daughter to poverty. They lived in an awful neighbourhood because Bob had quit his job working for Playboy to write the literature and analysis that helped me to save my own life. And a crazy homeless person killed his daughter. And, at that point, I snapped. ________ @leashless Do have a read of the Leashless Manifesto archive.org/download/Leash... it has a certain precision and clarity, even today. It opens some doors. what is the rent for being alive, and to whom is it paid? ______________ @leashless Ethererum and the Smart Grid – an interview with Sam Warburton of RWE about where the future leads youtube.com/watch?v=SFpna0... @ ConsenSysLLC Interview with Sam Warburton of RWE about blockchains, smart contracts, and smart grid control grid at micro level.. greater efficiency.. ie: pv on roof 2 min – nodes scattered.. run by diff people... 3 min – existing model – enormous server farms...going to a system where you can ie: run a server in their closet.. . – vinay server farms ness 5 min – like homesteading your own energy tech to run that world – box to control it (in house/closet)... looks much like a node on blockchain ..

[passage 49](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) run by diff people... 3 min – existing model – enormous server farms...going to a system where you can ie: run a server in their closet.. . – vinay server farms ness 5 min – like homesteading your own energy tech to run that world – box to control it (in house/closet)... looks much like a node on blockchain .. – sam 6 min – 99.9% of time.. box just sits there.. but if problem... can turn it off... 7 min – node in house... so millions of millions of nodes.. platforms on which you could put any ethereum node 8 min – tokenization – representation of energy wind up with single grand grid.. sitting on top of pipes.. and on top of that competitive market for energy.. ultimately.. at the household level.. not worth huge amounts of money... so benefits... ability to self generate/use... also helps others... 9 min – beyond notion of one panel per house.. full utility comes form interconnectedness.. to get full value.. have to utilize as much as possible .. making full use of capacity.. allowing people to make own choices ... simply/easily – sam mech simple enough .. 11 min – bringing scale into this, ie: need 30-50 households to run a supermarket.. w/in 1/2 km of supermarket... people build energy for market they use... so fundamentally grounded in locality... so can decide pay or decide we can disengage from pay – form spending time measuring transactions... 13 min- wallet ness needed..? so like craft econ figuring out capacity into industrial econ not just de centralized energy... banks.. other utilities.. telecom 14 min – once fully embedded – how does quality of life change... people more connected to energy – for most people fundamentally dull/boring.. 17 min – subtle signals on edge... that change tiny behaviors.. like caleb listening to plants.. 18 min – so they input values and extract from values to alter energy behaviors... optimizes use... to benefit all 20 min – also helps to group people together... via how they spend/use energy.. build community around shared social values... de cent energy.. w blockchain.. w communities of shared views... geographically and virtually/globally 22 min – expose to people the impact of what they’re doing. and allow them choices.. assuming people will then be responsible.. yes.. set people free .. 26 min – managing at micro level – both challenge and opp – sam 27 min – on substituting intelligence in the system for bulk 28 min – this ability for people to express themselves and to act also drives it – sam totally drives.. in the long run.. no..? ______ may 2016 http://highexistence.com/vinay-gupta-the-man-who-is-constantly-trying-to-solve-humanitys-largest-problems-and-save-all-of-our-lives/ the smartest human you’ve never heard of. __________ may 2016 #osfest16 @leashless on “the failure to govern ourselves and putting our species at risk” What can we do 1/2 Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/OpheliaNoor/status/732875313026306048 Ophelia Noor @OpheliaNoor #OSFEST16 @leashless “We need to build global governance without global government” (i.E the failure of the UN) OuiShare Fest @OuiShareFest The world is organised

[passage 50](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) http://highexistence.com/vinay-gupta-the-man-who-is-constantly-trying-to-solve-humanitys-largest-problems-and-save-all-of-our-lives/ the smartest human you’ve never heard of. __________ may 2016 #osfest16 @leashless on “the failure to govern ourselves and putting our species at risk” What can we do 1/2 Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/OpheliaNoor/status/732875313026306048 Ophelia Noor @OpheliaNoor #OSFEST16 @leashless “We need to build global governance without global government” (i.E the failure of the UN) OuiShare Fest @OuiShareFest The world is organised by & for nation-states with no indvidual representation; we feel we have no control of the world @leashless #OSFEST1 6 Aassia Haroon Haq @aassiaharoonhaq #blockchain thinker @leashless Vinay at #OSFEST16 says “one computer per world” could create governance w/out govt pic.twitter.com/EzYhriKSy3 Julia Pichler @hrealities . @leashless listening #OSFEST16 -> ” 1 vote...global” goal of Modules, all designed through, #strategic ; please read transitionarchitecture.net/?p=623 Nathan Schneider @nathanairplane Global democracy would mean a huge transfer of wealth from the rich to those they & their ancestors have robbed, says Vinay Gupta #osfest16 ulia Pichler @hrealities #OSFEST16 could you pls check & share this (powerfully transformative) Open Design Concept transitionarchitecture.net/?p=623 #ChangeDesign #OpenDev Julia Pichler @hrealities Live-stream @OuiShareFest – with# #OSFEST16 ;) :) – highly recommended ! glowbl.com/OuiShareFestCi... #TransitionArchitecture = #ChangeDesign ________ @makehacklearn Surprisingly on point from @ leashless “Scientific Approach To Enlightenment: Vinay Gupta Interview” futurethinkers.org/enlightenment-... “I would argue that the enlightened state is the natural state of human beings. We more or less start enlightened. And then we create the un-enlightened state of being as a special purpose experience, much in the same way that you might go into a movie theatre.” “I think it’s really important that people don’t say, ”ordinary consciousness is crap, we’re going to go out there and find enlightened consciousness”. Ordinary consciousness is better for nearly all people, nearly all the time.” 11 min – we’ve had enlightened beings on this planet for a really long time.. have to really say.. if people are going to pursuing consciousness.why are they going to do any better in helping out world than any before them.. we’ve had a long heritage of people pursing consciousness.. where exactly is it getting us 13 min – what have you chosen to do w it.. how come you’re not in a cave now.. kind of did for 2 yrs... settling in.. then i had this kind of dream/vision.. that earth/people would die.. coming to huge B paper ism for next reincarnation.. if all die at same time.. have to do paperwork.. so a mass call out... so go forth and try to preserve life on earth... after dream ended.. next few weeks.. new set of motivations arose inside... i found myself directly/personally bothered w state of world.. so .. all came out of a ridiculous vision.. 17 min – on pretending your wealth is clean.. 18 min – if you pool all the suffering – people being made to make things for us.. there’d be rather nothing left.. forms of spirituality where people become enormously self-satisfied.. in a world which is deeply troubled.. this approach is not ok. 23 min – on evolution..

[passage 51](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) a ridiculous vision.. 17 min – on pretending your wealth is clean.. 18 min – if you pool all the suffering – people being made to make things for us.. there’d be rather nothing left.. forms of spirituality where people become enormously self-satisfied.. in a world which is deeply troubled.. this approach is not ok. 23 min – on evolution.. on being replicating ness.. and we have biological data to back it up ? – sounds like leaning toward.. organism being algo .. ? 27 min – on cataloging/documenting people on what happens to them when they get enlightened... i’m pretty convinced.. sum total of enlightenment.. hard to get there.. and loaded w crap 28 min – what i’d love to see.. a scientific tradition of enlightenment.. how about.. self talk as data.. as the day.. hosting life bits.. 29 min – i don’t see any evidence that the enlightenment experience makes anyone better at judging what’s fundamentally good for world.. so is it better... question – if more enlightened people.. better world.. evidence.. enlightened people and not better world.. perhaps.. leaning more toward science of people ness 34 min – one way to look at it.. that enlightenment is an extreme for of artistic temperament.. 35 min – i don’t see anyone doing enlightenment w/o bringing medieval baggage.. 37 min – have to sit down and do it.. have to ask hard questions about what it’s good for.. have to not care about anything else.. till get through it.. step 1\ gather data – only mech we have..do the work..2\ if get breakthrough – don’t take anything for granted when want to tell self what just happened – tendency .. is afterwords.. gravel to local mythology to explain.. repeat and repeat myths.. and see experience through that myth .. ie: marriage.. we reify convenient truths into absolute truths .. again – science of people in schools ness.. we don’t know what we are really capable of 40 min – there is something real there.. but you don’t have to accept all the stories around it... the stories are nonsense .. but that doesn’t mean there’s no such animal.. they’re nonsense because they’re pre-science.. 42 min – on needing a mech for checking out truth... knowledge which comes from meditation is very convincing.. 9 times out of 10 – get at it.. there is deep knowledge inside us if you can get at it... problem is.. if fit inside myth not true.. then all truths inside person are twisted... that’s what disturbs me about religion.. i know more about how human being was made then they did.. so if i use old .. myth.. i’m not truthing... all experiences have to be slotted in.. to culture knowledge base around you now.. 48 min – enlightenment – doesn’t allow you to see around corners.. be certain.... otherwise.. all religious truths would converge.. 50 min – the fact that taking mushrooms want to get others to take them.. replicating process.. 53 min

[passage 52](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) use old .. myth.. i’m not truthing... all experiences have to be slotted in.. to culture knowledge base around you now.. 48 min – enlightenment – doesn’t allow you to see around corners.. be certain.... otherwise.. all religious truths would converge.. 50 min – the fact that taking mushrooms want to get others to take them.. replicating process.. 53 min – ie: on mckenna being so certain.. we’ve got to get away from.. if somebody said it.. it’s true.. 54 min – not agreeing w each other.. if they agreed.. the lack of agreement about fundamentals is extremely important.. 2 needs ness – deep/simple/open enough 55 min – going to take us.. binding on what we agree about.. and bagging the rest.. science is the best thing there is 56 min – bring same sharpness of intention.. and bring it into the domain of consciousness study.. explore mind.. self talk as data .. 58 min – if happens.. grab onto science.. not myths... if experience as an unknown.. 59 min – if it’s so great.. why didn’t it beat darwin... at solving questions of what are human beings.. what does nature do.. similar to thinking – if so great.. why hasn’t it changed us once you get darwin as fundamental base layer.. not going to stray very far when comes to questions about human nature.. this doesn’t mean there aren’t unanswered questions about consciousness.. whoa.. isn’t that keeping us 1:00 – i don’t want people in next generations.. having their enlightenment experiences and then becoming drones in medieval theocracies.. not even mine.. not good for you... only thing i can give you is ... stick close to darwin.. _________ Are we ready for global #democracy ? @leashless on how #blockchain can build it for us https://t.co/oqtx6S8xKu #OSFest16 #video Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/OuiShare/status/738370362560286721 70s: 1 computer per org (databases); 80s: 1 computer per person 2010 (networks): 1 computer per planet (blockchain) obvious thing to do w 1 computer per planet: fix climate change & resource scarcity.. right now world run by un.. giving you no individual representation.. only through govt .. so.. no wonder we feel we don’t have any control over world.. because we don’t.. very clear nation state us unable to .. take effective action on a solution.. this is not a small crisis.. 5 min – a failure to govern ourselves in a way that puts our very species at risk.. 5 min – 1 computer per world would allow us to build global governance and not global govt 8 min – getting to 1 vote.. 1 truth.. so democratic decision making at global level.. question is – how to get 7 bill people to vote.. don’t need to.. 100 mill is a sufficient sample ? take individual notions of opinion and produce a rough estimate on global set of issues... 9 min – given a set of agreed on facts.. what is global public opinion whoa... isn’t that what we can now disengage from..? can’t we live in

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