# vinay gupta | be you. (part 6 of 8)

> One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [172], part 6 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 6 of 8
[passage 66](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) 90 min crazy (not good crazy)... i wish i could have had 90 min with vinay instead. yeah. 1:26 – in future.. need turing complete smart contracts.. 1:27 – mining in china 1:28 – mining: an effective solution to the pack theorem.. allows to build something essential able to compensate for speed of light.. need to mine because.. you can’t find provably fair way of ordering transactions.. because of speed of light.. time\ing\ness ________ video notes from trip to dubai dubai as trade hub from 2.5 bill people.. so natural monopoly 5 min – mit workshop on refugee issues 6 min – rep of both dubai and singapore.. 7 min – culture changing much more slowly than tech more slack.. because we can’t see what will unfold.. if these are our future states _________ @leashless . @ emusdrinking If Singapore and Dubai could figure out how to tweak legal codes to tolerate software talent? They’d be unstoppable. _______ novel mother of hydrogen (my notes) via @leashless . @ _jordan_bates now read Mother of Hydrogen hexayurt.com/novel for exciting answers to these exciting questions :-) ________ thread – nov 2016 @leashless I am not enjoying seeing the shape and pattern of history. But I’ve gotten to diminishing returns on conscious adaptation. Moving forwards! Feeling comprehensively re-tooled for this New Future we are facing together. Tough times, big change, iconoclasm. Renegotiate priorities! I started a journey out of academia and activism towards capitalism because of two things: being broke, and Elon Musk. That is the truth. In simply had to admit I was wrong. Not 15 years wasted, but much less done than if I’d simply accepted that markets and sacrifice work. The sacrifice is the hard part: in capitalism the weakest get hurt, but you get Gates Foundation sometimes, and it changes history. perhaps let’s try more ie: @ TheEllenShow & design as temp placebo.. so it irrelevants itself a nother way cc @ cblack__ Accepting that this approach has better net results that nearly all forms of activism, consciousness raising and small charity was shocking. I just don’t see a more effective way to work towards the common good than making a lot of money and spending it helping people. That simple make money. Sacrifice your ideals. Get into the heart of the great mass, and keep your head down. I just don’t see a more effective way to work towards the common good than making a lot of money and spending it helping people. That simple _______ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:55 AM – 6 Dec 2016 : I can tell you now exactly why venture capital is the logical end point of my journey through academia and activism in the world now live in ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/806104845275066368?s=17 ) I’m not going to spend the day explaining. But I can’t push effectively without that ironclad mental integrity. I need to know my reasons. self-talk as data/energy Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:58 AM – 6 Dec 2016 : I don’t

[passage 67](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) logical end point of my journey through academia and activism in the world now live in ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/806104845275066368?s=17 ) I’m not going to spend the day explaining. But I can’t push effectively without that ironclad mental integrity. I need to know my reasons. self-talk as data/energy Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:58 AM – 6 Dec 2016 : I don’t know whether that need for integration is a weakness or strength in this rapid-fire world. I have hope for #deepwork as a language! ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/806105461732868097?s=17 ) lanier beyond words law __________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 12:25 PM – 25 Jan 2017 : The Internet of Agreements is new Hexayurt Capital concept work on blockchain fusion @I_of_A https://t.co/112UpamhE o #IofA whitepaper soon ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/824337375501422600?s=17 ) map for law – machine reps of the law.. if we can’t figure out what is legal we can’t proceed to alternate what if we just want/need to start over from scratch..? ie: too much b to sift through.. let’s start with just 2 needs .. deep enough .. (back human nature via hari rat park law ).. as constitution (if we must) in the real world logistics is everything blockchain is for.. moving physical stuff.. ? maybe it’s for connecting us.. facilitating our whimsy.. info in form of payment.. order.. insurance.. credentials.. oy http://hexayurt.capital/ A new venture capital project, focused on complex technologies and taking better care of founders _________ Caspar Addyman (@czzpr) tweeted at 4:49 AM – 7 Mar 2017 : tl;dr “My prediction: rough period, brief golden age, then further technological mayhem that threatens our survival as a species” https://t.co/mosWd0SNTG ( http://twitter.com/czzpr/status/839080672241332225?s=17 ) What do you think we’re currently getting wrong in our relationship with time? ..people aren’t thinking about lives in way that corresponds to bio reality..we created something called “Childhood” and people called “Teenagers”..we have people in ed till they’re 25... we basically shifted point of maturity back 15 years and then wonder why teenagers are all insane. on rest of interview.. please don’t get lost vinay ___________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 3:42 PM on Mon, May 22, 2017: If you’ve started following me because of #Ethereum stuff, you may like this site about my earlier humanitarian work https://t.co/vFb6POkhEq ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/866771371203989507?s=03 ) ___________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:54 PM on Sun, Jul 02, 2017: The objective is to make enough money running a piece of global infrastructure that the overflow can start a project to protect 1/4bn people ( h ttps://twitter.com/leashless/status/881647349478699008?s=03 ) rather.. enough money for enough people to not think about money.. to model a nother way (sans money) for 7 bn people to leap to.. let’s try that Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:55 PM on Sun, Jul 02, 2017: There are times when I look at this kind of ambition, and I doubt my sanity. But if not me, then who? Everybody else has tried; I bat last. ( h ttps://twitter.com/leashless/status/881647561655930880?s=03 ) everyone..? batting last..? Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:53 PM on Sun, Jul

[passage 68](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) try that Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:55 PM on Sun, Jul 02, 2017: There are times when I look at this kind of ambition, and I doubt my sanity. But if not me, then who? Everybody else has tried; I bat last. ( h ttps://twitter.com/leashless/status/881647561655930880?s=03 ) everyone..? batting last..? Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:53 PM on Sun, Jul 02, 2017: Whitepaper probably goes up on Friday. So many moving parts. Tired. Difficult. The path between this and building refugee cities seems long ( h ttps://twitter.com/leashless/status/881647029696507904?s=03 ) doesn’t have to be long ___________ Food, energy and water etc. are probably humanity’s real problems, and capitalism has proven efficient. Can capitalism be cleaned up? Maybe. h ttps://t.co/lleaU37rFg Original Tweet: h ttps://twitter.com/leashless/status/898872109954285568 perhaps deeper than f e & w.. maté basic needs: a & a perhaps trust that energy to take care of f e & w et al ___________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:49 AM – 24 Sep 2017 : We pretty much have to abandon the priorities and obsessions of the past. People were confused. They did bad, stupid things. Do better now. ( h ttp://twitter.com/leashless/status/911905504259133440?s=17 ) Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:43 AM – 24 Sep 2017 : We seem to become unmoored in a sea of competing opinions and priorities. We need grand orientation to overcome our short sightedness. ( h ttp://twitter.com/leashless/status/911903945135656961?s=17 ) Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:55 AM – 24 Sep 2017 : Relative to the achievable goal of spreading life to the stars, very little that our ancestors thought worthwhile actually matters at all. ( ht tp://twitter.com/leashless/status/911906912010203137?s=17 ) ? rather.. spreading life to stars matters little.. less than.. eudaimoniative surplus Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 5:00 AM – 24 Sep 2017 : We just have to use capitalism to pull people together around starship factories. How hard can that be? I mean... What would you rather do? ( h ttp://twitter.com/leashless/status/911908268171284481?s=17 ) the things i can’t not do ...ie: follow curiosity...whimsy Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 5:05 AM – 24 Sep 2017 : Elon Musk’s vision is better than any political leader. Stop listening to politics. Help Elon save life itself from our past mistakes. ( h ttp://twitter.com/leashless/status/911909478546788357?s=17 ) oh my ___________ talk from Vinay LET’S SAVE THE WORLD AND MAKE A LOT OF MONEY Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 5:58 AM on Mon, Sep 25, 2017: h ttps://t.co/vfdpzj2gtl here are my slides discussing what it would take to ICO Elon Musk’s Mars mission. Talk was fine but too short! ( h ttps://twitter.com/leashless/status/912285226260365314?s=03 ) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4w3Tams6OYoTGJJdzNDWjFIeE0/view ___________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 5:01 AM on Sun, Oct 01, 2017: But what is money for if not financing trade? So they’re really taking about tokenizing most of the assets in the real economy. Big plans. h ttps://t.co/9nV8jMFZ0P ( h ttps://twitter.com/leashless/status/914445128298844162?s=0 3 ) and .. we want to finance trade..? gupta roadblock law graeber f&b same law ___________ Vinay Gupta returns to Meaning with his biggest vision yet for global systems change [ h ttps://medium.com/meaning-conference/vinay-gupta-returns-to-meaning-with-his-biggest-vision-yet-for-global-systems-change-84464ee3bb6e ] “At

[passage 69](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) not financing trade? So they’re really taking about tokenizing most of the assets in the real economy. Big plans. h ttps://t.co/9nV8jMFZ0P ( h ttps://twitter.com/leashless/status/914445128298844162?s=0 3 ) and .. we want to finance trade..? gupta roadblock law graeber f&b same law ___________ Vinay Gupta returns to Meaning with his biggest vision yet for global systems change [ h ttps://medium.com/meaning-conference/vinay-gupta-returns-to-meaning-with-his-biggest-vision-yet-for-global-systems-change-84464ee3bb6e ] “At this point, what I’m working towards is trying to redesign how we handle refugees — ..going to have to do a lot of privately financed,..: go into the markets, make some money in technology, hopefully come back and follow the Elon Musk strategy of ‘ pay for the change you want to see in the world ’. I tried ‘being the change’ and it wasn’t working all that well, but ‘paying for the change’ — that seems like it might work. “So, step one is to make about £800 million. Step two is to spend this money setting up charter cities that are designed to accept refugees, and finance the process by having the refugees export goods and services on preferential tax rates; which would basically be a subsidy provided by the first world countries as a way of getting the refugee problem solved. seems we have the means to do this.. w/o perpetuating money as our os I’m in the position that I’m in because I started running early enough that I got a good position as I ran into the system. ..I look in society for the places where stress has accumulated and I use that map to position myself forward, because I’m carrying this hexayurt thing. It’s going to require the investment of enormous sums of money to build hexayurt cities and then hexayurt countries for the climate refugees. If I get squashed now, none of that is going to get done.” “I’m running around with a view of the future which is far more realistic than almost anyone else in the blockchain space has. Therefore I’m continually three or four steps ahead because I don’t believe that decentralisation is utopian. I don’t think it’s going to produce a better world at all. Centralisation can be the FDA ensuring you don’t have dioxins in your food. Decentralisation can be people marrying their thirteen-year-old cousins in rural Utah. This all cuts both ways. There is getting it right and there is any particular given political dogma. And all of the political sides are wrong — all of them are wrong. “I think accountability could produce a better world, and you could get accountability from blockchain; but decentralisation in the mode that people are currently practising it is simply hypercapitalism with another set of fangs.. fundamentally anathema to the vast majority of people in the blockchain space. They think you’re going to get full decentralisation, they don’t want to think about the black state and its weapon stockpiles, they absolutely don’t want to think about environmental constraints. It’s just a ‘yeah it’s all going to work out’ kind of

[passage 70](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) hypercapitalism with another set of fangs.. fundamentally anathema to the vast majority of people in the blockchain space. They think you’re going to get full decentralisation, they don’t want to think about the black state and its weapon stockpiles, they absolutely don’t want to think about environmental constraints. It’s just a ‘yeah it’s all going to work out’ kind of future. But it’s not all going to work out. It might work out for well-armed white people in rich countries, but it’s certainly not going to work out for everybody else. ” Forty-five is the age that you begin to enter structural power, and for the most part the hippy leadership never made it that far. It’s a recurring, inter-generational cycle. For Vinay, this is a time for building, not fighting. If activists have allowed themselves to be drained of their effectiveness, could this be because they have too often prioritised sensibility above strategy? No one really understands the issues, you’ve got to wait until people are actively beginning to push for basic income before you start dropping everything to go and deliver basic income. It’s a waiting game. ” “The one thing that I think might be worth fighting for ( in mean time ) is laboratory grown meat...wind up with the ability to get the population off cow, it will make an enormous difference to our global warming emissions. Enormous. Bigger than getting rid of cars. It takes all of the land use pressure of nature. He will regularly remind you that it’s impossible to confront the future without also tearing up your sensibilitie s; and it is clear that this is a deeply held existential position. As an advanced practitioner of Kriya Yoga, Vinay likens the task to the ancient principles of Tantric philosophy: ” the continual pursuit of truth over social conformity.” As with any topic on which Vinay holds forth — you pigeonhole him at your peril. ____________ youtube.com/watch?v=dla42 b... common os economically – where rules on global basis aren’t diff.. money to do all this comes from the liquidity.. a mazing 1:39 – finally being able to perceive blockchain projects that live up to potential tech actually has.. and this is that.. is it potential if still measuring..? _____________ Rahul Singireddy (@rahulsingireddy) tweeted at 6:20 PM on Wed, Oct 18, 2017: My first piece in Forbes covering @leashless ! Thanks to @richardmuirhead and @laurashin for the opportunity. h ttps://t.co/GOLrNZlfSG ( h ttps://twitter.com/rahulsingireddy/status/920806933300355072?s=03 ) It was from the Internet that Gupta first heard about a festival called Burning Man. “In those days, more or less everyone knew more or less everything that was happening on the Internet all at the same time,” Gupta said. “There was no sense that the Internet was too big to understand. There just wasn’t that much stuff there.” In 1 996 , Gupta went to his first Burn. There were 8000 people in attendance, with no street signs and a theme of corporate takeover. It was very wild and very

[passage 71](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) the Internet all at the same time,” Gupta said. “There was no sense that the Internet was too big to understand. There just wasn’t that much stuff there.” In 1 996 , Gupta went to his first Burn. There were 8000 people in attendance, with no street signs and a theme of corporate takeover. It was very wild and very weird to the kid from rural Scotland, but he liked it. Gupta kept coming back for ten years. “It was Burning Man. It was just the staggering, the amazing, the Burning Man. The Burn Of particular importance to cryptocurrency was the C ypherpunk mailing list, which Gupta was a part of. Founded in 1992, the list hosted futuristic technology discussion about a wide range of subjects, and had nearly 2000 members in 1997 with an average of 30 messages sent every day. Gupta saw Bitcoin in its early years but completely ignored it. “I was not interested in speculating or making money through speculating,” Gupta said. ..I knew from the E-Gold community that payments weren’t enough. E-gold had payments and it didn’t create any kind of new social structure.” He picked up a heavy meditation practice after buying a book on the Internet written by an Australian named Paul Wilson called The Calm Technique . And soon he found himself involved in an unlikely field: disaster relief. Gupta’s biggest accomplishment to date is the design of the Hexayurt, a disaster relief tent that can be folded and transported. “A bunch of hippies asked me if I could figure out how to build a geodesic dome without waste. After I invented it I felt obligated to do something.” in 2001, Gupta was at the Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado, an environmental think tank. ..Can someone design a shelter which can be packed flat, transported, and put back up again? So refugees can be given a reusable house. A tent that can be folded. And I sat down, with the back of the envelope, and 15 minutes later I had the Hexayurt.” The first model was built in 2003 at Burning Man, 6 feet high, 7 feet long, and 8 feet wide. Gupta tried for years to get the Hexayurt to be widely adopted for disaster relief, but was unable to get past the bureaucracy of NGO’s. Gupta then moved further into the resilience field, improbably winding up at the Pentagon advising them on large scale disaster management, as well as on how to use cryptography to protect civil rights. He continued this work at the UCL Institute for Security and Resilience Studies in the UK, working for the former UK Secretary of Defense, John Reid. Then, he jumped back into crypto fully, coordinating Ethereum’s release in 2015. Gupta is the earliest of adopters, motivated by intellectual curiosity rather than monetary gain. _____________ Rob Knight _____________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:39 PM on Thu, Dec 07, 2017: h ttps://t.co/wxYmiiiDz3 I want to live in this world. I do live in this

[passage 72](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) of Defense, John Reid. Then, he jumped back into crypto fully, coordinating Ethereum’s release in 2015. Gupta is the earliest of adopters, motivated by intellectual curiosity rather than monetary gain. _____________ Rob Knight _____________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:39 PM on Thu, Dec 07, 2017: h ttps://t.co/wxYmiiiDz3 I want to live in this world. I do live in this world. The camera, which is the eye which can see this way, is in a box. Perhaps time to get it out again. Bit of time to think over the holidays. Bit of time to remember how to see. I’m losing perspective. ( ht tps://twitter.com/leashless/status/938946045224026114?s=03 ) ____________ dec 2017 on blockchain : Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 7:12 PM on Sat, Dec 16, 2017: Heading for 200 retweets of this. Very very surprised that people are so receptive to the message. ht tps://t.co/UCrKVv7ZID has the whole tweetstorm as a Medium post, with some links that expand on the details. Let me know what you think! ht tps://t.co/C06PfxxKZD ( h ttps://twitter.com/leashless/status/942216006860238848?s=03 ) the great grandaddy of horrible problems blockchain can solve is terrorist and criminal financing. how about a deeper problem .. making terrorism and financing irrelevant (which i learned from vinay) So what do we do? ..a society without waste , including of human potential. let’s just start there .. that energy would do it.. A very low waste society is a fascinating place: I imagine that everything has a price and an owner. imagine ‘price and owner’ as irrelevant a zero waste society must admit market failures need to be fixed by non-market mechanisms. But everything improves as you reduce waste: waste is entropy, and is not life the constant process of order winning against entropy, of pattern’s victory over mere chaos? entropy ness..? mere chaos..? There are probably four or five other big plays out there: banking the unbanked, global identity w. crypto to protect your biometrics, microtransactions, currencies backed by natural resources, and C2C versions of fintech normally used for businesses (i.e. hedging a flight or insuring your car from breaking down on a family road trip.) only big plays based on man made money ..? why..? These big play projects are at the same general level of ambition as “let’s map the entire world using satellites and drones” or “let’s connect people to everybody they’ve ever met” or “let’s digitize all human knowledge.” The dotcom era got several more of these things done (hello, mobile phones!) and I don’t see any reason the blockhchain era should not have at least as much impact. won’t get there if stuck in fin dom.. let go You put all this stuff together, in an age of increasing and accelerating global change, and you break down some dumb structure around health, education, social care (i.e. medical records portability, transparent service pricing in hospitals) and the blockchain is soon indispensable to everyday life . If we play our cards right, we might even get there in a semi-regulated or only lightly

[passage 73](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) this stuff together, in an age of increasing and accelerating global change, and you break down some dumb structure around health, education, social care (i.e. medical records portability, transparent service pricing in hospitals) and the blockchain is soon indispensable to everyday life . If we play our cards right, we might even get there in a semi-regulated or only lightly regulated state. only if we use it to facil everyday life.. if we use it to measure transactions.. facil made up money.. blockchain becomes a facilitator of that waste .. that you’re trying to get rid of I’m doing my part here. M attereum.com ( @M attereum ) is my bid to get the necessary legal frameworks in place to make direct control of physical property using the blockchain recognized in 150+ countries. I want to break the door open to the material world so you can change the status of a *s mart contract , and have a real-world court recognize that legal ownership of a fiat asset has changed hands. Fiddly, but it’s ** necessary infrastructure for all of our next steps together. * smart contracts .. **are you sure..? .. let go Maintaining our political viability as we grow is going to need massive investments in public facing apps that solve real problems. We will need to show people things that really * make people feel they are living in a better future to maintain these valuations . It’s going to require proof that we are the future , not just carpetbagging promisers. how about just.. *help people live better.. no proof .. no train We need a bigger, better vision of the Bitcoin Future (and, yes, the Ethereum and general crypto future) if we are going to hold together the ship against pressure. *we need a deeper/simpler/more-open vision.. I really believe that the Ethereum community has a ton of the pieces of that puzzle: smart contracts give us the reach to really interact with the real world. But we aren’t going to get to houses and cars on the blockchain without some real effort to find social utility in addition to the straight financial play. I’m trying to frame the zone of aspirations, the things we should be fighting for as we go forwards into 2018 — the year that the blockchain is recognized as a global power, and has to learn to act like one. only if we use it as it could be ___________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:59 AM on Wed, Dec 20, 2017: Let’s change the damn world... h ttps://t.co/nXV2d5Ka7G ( h ttps://twitter.com/leashless/status/943480913471639553?s=03 ) for (blank)’s sake ... ie: hlb via 2 convos that io dance .. as the day .. a nother way ___________ Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) tweeted at 3:15 AM – 24 Dec 2017 : One of the things I remember best from my training with @leashless “Ian, you need to accept that on Earth, God has terrible aesthetic (moral/ethical) preferences.” Earth is as it is because humans want

[passage 74](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) 2 convos that io dance .. as the day .. a nother way ___________ Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) tweeted at 3:15 AM – 24 Dec 2017 : One of the things I remember best from my training with @leashless “Ian, you need to accept that on Earth, God has terrible aesthetic (moral/ethical) preferences.” Earth is as it is because humans want it as it is. This truth needs deep thinking on. ( h ttp://twitter.com/iwelsh/status/944874209645383680?s=17 ) ___________ Michel Bauwens (@mbauwens) tweeted at 3:03 AM – 1 Feb 2018 : RT @instigating: “People buying #bitcoin are shorting the status quo” @leashless calls for collective investment in governance + lobbies ht tps://t.co/kUjJlPB3Lb ( h ttp://twitter.com/mbauwens/status/959004348096352257?s=17 ) post from dec 2017 – The great ICO freeze is beginning. What does it mean for crypto in 2018? blockchains could enable a nearly zero-waste society . What’s that worth? 10% of GDP? 25% of GDP? 50% of GDP? how do you have near zero waste if you’re still measuring gdp..? if you’re still measuring..? On the other hand, unlike Libertarian visions of the future, a zero waste society must admit market failures need to be fixed by non-market mechanisms. ie: mechs that make money/market irrelevant.. But everything improves as you reduce waste: waste is entropy, and is not life the constant process of order winning against entropy, of pattern’s victory over mere chaos? winning against entropy ..? or swimming w it.. ? up cycling .. et al If a year from now we’re going to see the crypto space at $1tn of assets (rather than less than five hundred million), it’s going to have to be like Apple: used by a billion people every day, and loved by most of them. Otherwise, it really will have been a bubble, and the wealth will drain away as quickly as it arrived. Build like hell, it’s the only thing that gives us a right to exist....We will need to show people things that really make people feel they are living in a better future to maintain these valuations. need a mech/infra.. that is based on something 7 bn people already crave.. no sales pitch needed.. no training needed.. __________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 5:15 AM – 12 Feb 2018 : The reason is that naming things is one of the two hard problems in computer science. The other is cache invalidation. I have a deep, old philosophy of names. I haven’t been able to write it up properly yet! ht tps://t.co/jtIBd1VH81 will have to do for now. h ttps://t.co/qY9XL4hrRD ( h ttp://twitter.com/leashless/status/963023827654586372?s=17 ) interview w @LukeRobertMason hexayurt rejection because it lasts too long 11 min – fundamental problems 1\ if human beings feel they lack something they need they become aggressive (can go toward others via mechs including econ competition .. or toward nature via extraction).. so unless we find ways of getting everybody what they need we’re going to be continue to be exposed to enormous amounts of violence have/need ness gershenfeld sel 12 min – and

[passage 75](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) 1\ if human beings feel they lack something they need they become aggressive (can go toward others via mechs including econ competition .. or toward nature via extraction).. so unless we find ways of getting everybody what they need we’re going to be continue to be exposed to enormous amounts of violence have/need ness gershenfeld sel 12 min – and exposure to violence is not something that just happens to losers.. winners are also exposed to violence.. nobody really wants to live a life that’s dominated by violence.. so have to think in terms of resource abundance.. as way we unpack human psych/physical violence.. but getting to resource abundance is very difficult.. because so many of our systems are run on pure competition.. and even worse they’re run on status competition.. which is an endless treadmill.. end up with infinite consumption.. never satisfied.. affluence w/o abundance 13 min – so what i wanted to figure out during that 12 yr arc – how do we build the essential mechs of life at a cheap enough level that anybody could afford them.. even the people that are already very poor.. most of the work on poverty assumes the solution is to make poor people wealthier so they can compete in the market resources.. but then you have this ladder bubble.. if instead you take the price of central goods/services and bring them down to point where poor can afford them on their existent budgets.. nobody gets politically annoyed.. (ie: iphone for $15 vs double farmers wages) what about people who don’t have any budget..? begs we disengage from money so.. came to conclusion this was totally possible.. but came to conclusion that nobody would fund it.. then decided i would try the elon musk model of just take a bn dollars out of market capitalism and fund the research myself.. and that’s what i’m doing in blockchain 38 min – on cryptocurrencies as lab to experiment w hyper capitalism.. seeing smart people running around w a lot of money.. do amazing things.. graeber min/max law .. but need to get back to .. everyone getting that access 40 min – what are humans for if not to go out and explore the universe.. (have had means for some time).. why haven’t we.. a governance issue.. could have said.. moon is not enough.. and had radio broadcast coming back decades ago.. humans landing on another planet.. but.. we didn’t get our act together.. dang vinay.. how about.. to take care of each other.. here.. 41 min – (luke): silicon valley.. (going into) space.. is all about infinite land.. ai about infinite slave labor.. what i worry about.. is the blockchain is essentially the third part of that.. which is the infinite growth of capital .. t .. we’re basing on such an old .. 1700 model (smith) .. are we in trouble sir..? oh. it’s much worse than that.. that’s a billion year old model.. and it’s called life.. life expands to

[passage 76](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) labor.. what i worry about.. is the blockchain is essentially the third part of that.. which is the infinite growth of capital .. t .. we’re basing on such an old .. 1700 model (smith) .. are we in trouble sir..? oh. it’s much worse than that.. that’s a billion year old model.. and it’s called life.. life expands to fill every available niche.. it mutates into the niches that it can’t currently get into.. and all resources get pulled in wtf..? what about 99% of our existence wasn’t like that..? 42 min – i’m not saying the market model is a true rep of the state of nature.. it’s obviously not.. but at the end of the day.. why are we here.. i think it would be quite cool if in 5 bn years looking back.. said: those 21st cent humans really did a good thing when they got off the planet.. they took evolution into the stars.. that’s worth doing.. right.. to be of the generation that went interstellar.. we can be the only living things that have ever done it.. that’s worth doing.. i don’t think anything else is really that important.. grand sweep of cosmic history.. getting into the stars is the only thing that really matters.. everything else scrambles to dust.. but if we get out there and figure out how to live out there.. there’s a lot of out there.. nothing else you’re working on is really that important.. it’s all these local obsessions.. people fuss with.. saying.. it’s a terrible thing.. really..? compared to us getting hit by an asteroid and everybody dies and that’s the end of life on the entire universe.. none of it matters.. big mistake after ww2 when put a bunch of money toward missiles instead of toward rockets dang dang 44 min – the real bio politic is that life expands and when it doesn’t it turns cannibal.. because didn’t go to stars when we had the opp.. we’re murdering each other on earth.. and we’re not going to stop murdering each other on earth until we reclaim our birthright.. which is the high frontier.. we must go or we will murder each other holy cow ethereum and smart contracts – way of arranging mass cooperation.. public choice ? 46 min – mars mission.. couple 100 bn.. probably funded by crypto currencies 47 min – luke: great.. for musk and all.. but what about us vinay.. 50 min – so finally.. get to talk about econ.. this is basically an econ issue.. (internet 3.0) 51 min – 1\ john nash in early work.. situation that’s terrible for everybody.. coord problem to solve.. begs we leap .. much less ridiculous than going to the stars 2\ coase 53 min – 3\ benkler saying commons.. ie: wikipedia benefit is big completeness 54 min – what we missed.. and i think this is the unsolved problem of econ.. the big co’s from the free net 56 min – ability to rapidly

[passage 77](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) coord problem to solve.. begs we leap .. much less ridiculous than going to the stars 2\ coase 53 min – 3\ benkler saying commons.. ie: wikipedia benefit is big completeness 54 min – what we missed.. and i think this is the unsolved problem of econ.. the big co’s from the free net 56 min – ability to rapidly move money to coordinate actions of species.. could use blockchain to police this system.. how about disengage from money.. worst middle man ever.. use gershenfeld sel to not have to police 57 min – but.. do we have the political will no..not for that.. go deeper 59 min – your name is not your id.. what’s new.. is your ability to assign yourself a unique name.. this is what generation of crypto keys gives you.. a means to communicate w you w/o ability to steal your id.. this ability to self assign unique names gives us ability to org all kinds of things in the world.. oy.. let’s try curiosity (what matters to you today).. as label .. and org via 2 convos ie: hlb via 2 convos that io dance .. as the day ..[aka: not part\ial .. for (blank)’s sake ...].. a nother way 1:00 – one of biggest problems we have is we don’t know what things are called.. ie: do this for toxic waste.. creating a global id commons.. et al.. how do we thinking about the naming of things.. the innovation of naming things is generally going to be a revolution label .. just that.. let’s let that be our quiet revolution.. for all of us.. today __________ on free speech Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 0:53 PM on Wed, Mar 21, 2018: “The blockchain the posterchild for individual, self-organised free speech creating higher-level political structures... if somebody is clever enough to figure out how to use free speech to create currency, it’s very hard to imagine you would stop that. ht tps://t.co/MuU5DKZLxT ( h ttps://twitter.com/leashless/status/976532236651593732?s=0 3 ) depends how you define currency.. there is a way to use free speech as our flow/circulation I’m going to talk about individual rights . The blockchain is a system which, at least in theory, is constituted by individual actors from their right to free speech. * The blockchain records a **series of utterances, these are statements, and those statements carry with them a digital signature, the statement with a digital signature is taken as being *** an indicator of somebody’s free action, their free will , .. t .. and as a result it’s very hard to argue that the blockchain should be illegal. imagine *recording ( hostinglb ).. **daily utterances ( idio-jargon ) .. ***indicator of truly free will ( self-talk as data) A series of statements are made by individuals, those statements are *interpreted by other individuals to authorise the transfer of value, and the value only exists because **individuals have chosen to recognise it as having value. **imagine we determine 2 convos to have

[passage 78](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) hostinglb ).. **daily utterances ( idio-jargon ) .. ***indicator of truly free will ( self-talk as data) A series of statements are made by individuals, those statements are *interpreted by other individuals to authorise the transfer of value, and the value only exists because **individuals have chosen to recognise it as having value. **imagine we determine 2 convos to have value.. imagine we determine daily self-talk to have value.. no need for *other’s interpretations.. as validation/authorization/et-al It’s very hard to imagine a regime in which you can stop something like that, without fundamentally limiting speech. “You can have all the speech you like, but if your speech is interpreted by other people as being a transfer of value, I’m very sorry, you’re going to have to pay taxes on that.” imagine doing all this sans money / measuring So the machinery which is used to actually carry out your rights changes over time. .. we’re going to be in a position where there is a constant struggle over the interpretation and reinterpretation of basic human rights, as technology either strips those rights or reinforces those rights. And because electronic communications are a fantastic mechanism for speech, speech rights are the most heavily affected initial rights in these kinds of systems. let’s focus on that (which also begs that people are detoxed) ie: hlb via 2 convos that io dance .. as the day ..[aka: not part\ial .. for (blank)’s sake ...].. a nother way ___________ convo w James Young (notes from convo on james’s page) on energy and blockchain Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 1:59 PM on Thu, Mar 22, 2018: Watch this video about @ImpactPPA h ttps://t.co/UVBfyYvnRP James and I discuss how #microgrids and #blockchain can transform life for billions of people, and the role of hardware in building a new economy. I’m glad to be part of this project! ( h ttps://twitter.com/leashless/status/976911256421531649?s=03 ) Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 2:07 PM on Thu, Mar 22, 2018: A particularly fabulous part of the @ImpactPPA interview h ttps://t.co/oI0pNGbYr2 James Young describes how his experience scaling Farmville is just like keeping electrical grids going, and avoiding brownouts is like preventing web servers falling over. Superb! ( ht tps://twitter.com/leashless/status/976913265925279744?s=0 3 ) (on vinay – i can’t think of anyone else.. that is so smart/knowledgeable.. and yet extremely humble.. open to ideas.. considerate..) __________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 2:24 AM on Fri, Mar 23, 2018: I awoke today with a clearer vision of The Question than I’ve had in a while. “Can software minimize waste and accidental damage, while also fostering benign pro-social behaviour?” Note software could be “the market” or “religion” or any other social construct. Hard question. ( htt ps://twitter.com/leashless/status/977098858164572160?s=0 3 ) i believe so.. software as it could be ie: hlb via 2 convos that io dance .. as the day ..[aka: not part\ial .. for (blank)’s sake ...].. a nother way and too.. then light lag time becomes irrelevant.. it’s the lag time between intention and action (locally) that

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