# vinay gupta | be you. (part 7 of 8)

> One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [172], part 7 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 7 of 8
[passage 79](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) 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 matters.. to human energy and .. minimizing waste/damagae ___________ convo w Ian (notes here) “Listen as @leashless and @iang_fc have a fascinating talk about social structures of agreements, trust and dispute resolution, and the way Ricardian systems can be created to support it.” ht tps://t.co/iQRcAtuALu ht tps://t.co/3BruM8Tban Original Tweet: ht tps://twitter.com/eosnewyork/status/981166987161284608 ___________ thread/convo Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 2:26 AM – 29 Apr 2018 : As transhumanism really begins to kick in – life extension, race change surgery, intelligence increase and flawless gender reassignment technologies, among others, it’s going to be increasingly difficult to even *define* words like equality, equity and inclusion. h ttps://t.co/5GSrc344hX ( h ttp://twitter.com/leashless/status/990507485051215872?s=17 ) equity : everyone getting a go everyday __________ Vinay on reputation ht tps://twitter.com/i/web/status/977185632584806400 We are using reputation to try and make sure bad things never happen! But this is never going to work: accidents happen, and reputation does not protect us from that. People change: reputation makes people prisoners of their past. Reputation requires identity and vulnerability. _________ advisor to econ space w : Vinay , Ben , Douglas , Esko , Marina , Brett , .. ________ We are going to need to be much, much smarter about this blockchain thing. It’s not clear to people that we are building tools to manage scarce planetary resources through the difficult 21st century. They think it’s just an extension of the current economy. That *can’t* be true. Original Tweet: htt ps://twitter.com/leashless/status/1002715630536151041 The current economy, for all its productivity, is too inefficient. 50% food waste on a planet of starving people. Orphan drugs and orphan diseases. Deforestation. Sea plastic. All of that comes from mispricing assets and measuring the wrong things. Accept no smaller challenge. Original Tweet: ht tps://twitter.com/leashless/status/1002716982339350528 perhaps it comes from measuring.. at all.. accept no smaller challenge v The blockchain is for building the next economy: correctly price externalities, and count every dropped grain of rice. Levy economic taxes to foster and force radical resource efficiency. Double, then quadruple, the number of humans who experience plenty – then bring up the rest! Original Tweet: h ttps://twitter.com/leashless/status/1002717431402565632 perhaps the blockchain (or whatever) is for building the next economy: cure ios city sans measuring/pricing.. just connecting __________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 7:00 AM – 13 Oct 2018 : I used to be such a utopian hippie https://t.co/N6FQe39vpD over the years of trying to implement vision on this scale I finally realized *we simply do not have enough competent people that give a damn* to turn the world around with social consciousness. Hence the hard path now. ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1051095233931423744?s=17 ) I don’t want to raise my future children in a culture where the

[passage 80](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) such a utopian hippie https://t.co/N6FQe39vpD over the years of trying to implement vision on this scale I finally realized *we simply do not have enough competent people that give a damn* to turn the world around with social consciousness. Hence the hard path now. ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1051095233931423744?s=17 ) I don’t want to raise my future children in a culture where the government takes their money and uses it to kill people, and will put them in jail if they say “no!” R ________ My disaster relief/deep dark green people have been wondering what I’ve been doing since 2014: I didn’t give up, I grew up. I’m building the tools that are within my reach to solve the resource allocation, pollution control, sharing economy problem. @mattereum fits on my old map. Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1051259179485286401 __________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 5:25 AM – 15 Nov 2018 : I’m having one of those odd mornings where the entire civilizational process looks like an industrial design question. Like, just, really, do we need all this complexity? How did people get so confused about what matters? Are we sure any of this actually matters? Just FIX IT. ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1063045247616409600?s=17 ) gupta roadblock law a nother way – a story about people grokking what matters let’s just facil daily curiosity ie: cure ios city 2 convers as infra tech as it could be .. __________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 1:25 PM – 13 Dec 2018 : My @ethereum #DEVCON4 talk on the future of Ethereum, smart contracts and the blockchain is now online, entitled “How to control the material world with smart contracts.” There’s a transcript, too. https://t.co/3DjFJYLgqy Thanks for recording it, guys! @Mattereum ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1073312917175631872?s=17 ) 25 min talk 3 min – i’m completely convinced that the sync of the world’s computers for all purposes of global trade is going to end up on a blockchain or a closely equiv tech.. this is * the big game .. this is what we’re chasing.. can either wind of w a better world because that same system tracks ** carbon, slavery, environ pollution, oppression , .. or we can have a system that washes all hands and leaves you w no record keeping.. t *let go of trade.. and augment interconnectedness .. **better to be left with no slavery, environ pollution, oppression et al.. 5 min – this is our issue.. we are having a horrible problem breaking out into the real world so that we can use smart contracts to solve fiat assets.. until we solve this problem we are not fully empowered.. t until we let go of control.. ie: contracts .. we’ll never be fully empowered what we need most: the energy of 7bn alive people we can’t get hold of the future and shape the future because as soon as we get outside the world of smart-contracts/crypto-assets we’re suddenly powerless.. the magic stops happening until we let go (of contracts/crypto/assets/et-al).. we’re powerless.. there is no magic i know how to get to

[passage 81](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) be fully empowered what we need most: the energy of 7bn alive people we can’t get hold of the future and shape the future because as soon as we get outside the world of smart-contracts/crypto-assets we’re suddenly powerless.. the magic stops happening until we let go (of contracts/crypto/assets/et-al).. we’re powerless.. there is no magic i know how to get to the real world now.. i know how to control it w smart contracts.. some of you will hate/love it.. please if you know of another way.. let me know.. t a nother way: cure ios city sans measuring / validating / contracting .. 18 min – lawyers are simply programmers for the real world.. and world is nasty place so lawyers basically constantly writing error handling code _________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:48 PM on Mon, Feb 18, 2019: Just ignore the culture: it’s all garbage. Go to the data, learn from the data, act on the data. Fuck politics, fuck other people’s opinions: get facts, make up your own minds. Even deconstruct language: what is the State? Retell all stories in an evolutionary context. No mystery ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1097674340710129664?s=03 ) what data.. Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:55 PM on Mon, Feb 18, 2019: and that’ll do for tonight. it’s just a process of being realistic: make your moves on the most accurate maps you can find, and that’s largely about the 99% of the map which we choose not to see when we are making decisions. Zoom back, look up, make the wise choice. It’s simple. ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1097676118486892544?s=03 ) Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 5:32 PM on Mon, Feb 18, 2019: How does the world work: two billion urban rich, a billion and a half urban poor, four billion rural poor, a handful of rural rich. Rich people are at 4x+ planets of consumption. In the worst places, 1/6 kids die before 5 and 1% of mothers die giving birth. Top 1% income? $32,000 ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1097655236234301440?s=03 ) that data? assumes money..which makes us like whales in sea world let’s try self-talk as data Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 5:42 PM on Mon, Feb 18, 2019: I accept that you can’t know everything. But, for fuck’s sake people, zooming back 1000 years and thinking about 3 categories of people (urban/rural, poor/rich) and thinking maybe 20 years into the future along linear trends should not be too much to ask. It fits on a single page ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1097657618682863616?s=03 ) think we have to go further/deeper to get to human potential.. and .. not do linear trends – not do trends at all.. am thinking that’s what got us to whales in sea world so again.. what data .. is huge.. one page or volumes matters little if it’s illegit data.. no? ________ convo w Daniel Thorson Ben Schulz (@bnschlz) tweeted at 4:39 AM – 9 Apr 2019 : The Monster Factory. Love of “us” at the expense of “them” is destroying the world. Nice work @leashless and @thorson. Part I

[passage 82](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) in sea world so again.. what data .. is huge.. one page or volumes matters little if it’s illegit data.. no? ________ convo w Daniel Thorson Ben Schulz (@bnschlz) tweeted at 4:39 AM – 9 Apr 2019 : The Monster Factory. Love of “us” at the expense of “them” is destroying the world. Nice work @leashless and @thorson. Part I https://t.co/kljYA74tcX Part II https://t.co/9ZAG0kWMx9 ( http://twitter.com/bnschlz/status/1115564858978623489?s=17 ) twitter handle above not right for Daniel Thorson.. it’s @dthorson – he’s from boulder – https://www.monasticacademy.com/ http://www.emerge.is/ part 1 12 min – i’m really only about preventing extinction.. if we can do that.. possibly expand into space.. past that i have zero hope for everything else.. fairness/goodness/well-being.. we have blown everything there is to blow on all of those levels.. my advice is .. abandon all lesser causes.. none of it’s real.. none of it matters if we go extinct.. not because of global warming.. but because of political changes which will come because of a result of radically increased resource scarcity brought about by global warming.. ie: nuclear/bio weapons.. the more chaotic/violent the world gets.. the more dark the more crazy the solutions wow 25 min – huge ineq happening.. not because they (few at the top/wealthy) hate you .. but because they love their kids and are blinding selves to all others.. not being done by hate but by love.. that’s why it’s so hard to stop 27 min – love is not enough.. it’s by no means the highest virtue.. rather.. truth.. above love is truth what is truth? who decides..? has to be love vinay.. those people ‘acting out of love for kids’ .. that’s not love.. that’s fear.. (security for kids.. security is based on fear not love) thurman interconnectedness law 29 min – everyone feeling they are doing the best they can.. but not enough.. so why do it it’s less about doing so much and more about sync.. to me.. the biggest/deepest problem is getting us back into sync.. everyone in sync .. which can’t happen unless it’s everyone.. we can’t fix things.. we can just bring us all back together.. the ai humanity needs.. augmenting interconnectedness 30 min – in reality.. nothing we can do in amount of time we have.. so we are looking for hacks to buy us some time to do something about resource scarcity.. if people have enough .. so they don’t feel they need to butcher their neighbor for resources.. to some degree we could get them to chill out about doing enough about material scarcity that we could get people to chill out a little is about all i think is realistic at this point in history.. t short bp you look at things like bi.. even a 3rd rate implementation of bi is likely to stop people starving in the streets.. even a lousy implementation of bi is likely to do a good job of stopping that (people falling off cliff).. worst part of anybody is..instability.. not knowing

[passage 83](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) think is realistic at this point in history.. t short bp you look at things like bi.. even a 3rd rate implementation of bi is likely to stop people starving in the streets.. even a lousy implementation of bi is likely to do a good job of stopping that (people falling off cliff).. worst part of anybody is..instability.. not knowing where money is coming from.. seems you could pull an enormous amount of anxiety out of society w bi.. not happier.. but less aggressively vicious and maybe less violent 33 min – i’m not talking massive save the world.. but maybe if people less scared.. 34 min – now.. unable to prioritize.. we’re not noticing that we’re shooting people with one hand and handing out bandages with the other rest of this and part 2 – mostly about awakening ness.. part 2 35 min – d: this helps me realize why we create monastic environs where you can contemplate these things w/o losing everything imagine that space.. everyday.. for everyone.. ie: 2 convers as infra while listening @dthorson: I predict we will soon see the rise of emergent self-governing collectives organized around shared problems or purpose. To participate in these collectives will require a high degree of sovereignty. sovereignty ?.. maybe just curiosity ie: cure ios city am thinking that would save a ton of energy.. by creating diff collectives.. 1:04 – so much energy has been poured into this massive awakening dream (like eradicating racism – not gonna happen).. that could be poured into doing practical stuff in the world.. what we need most: the energy of 7bn alive people begs tech as it could be .. Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:37 PM on Tue, Apr 09, 2019: I’m fascinated by how hard-hitting people found these two podcasts @dthorson and I did recently. We didn’t talk about extinction, or pandemic flu, or genocide, or any of that stuff. https://t.co/3BRmMfUJTY https://t.co/qCzE2nwwdi We talked about *money* and homelessness and lies. ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1115775749212995589?s=03 ) Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:38 PM on Tue, Apr 09, 2019: What really amazes me is the difference in reactions between part one and part two: part one, lots of fanfare. Part two, flat silence. Mostly we talk about the struggle of knowing how to help in a world gone things wrong. https://t.co/3BRmMfUJTY https://t.co/qCzE2nwwdi basically ( h ttps://twitter.com/leashless/status/1115776153061658624?s=0 3 ) Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:42 PM on Tue, Apr 09, 2019: I know we all want a two car garage (to put our fab lab in, if not a car) and free health care. These are our rights, right? But we share a planet with a million people who will starve to death this year. Socialism failed. Now what? https://t.co/3BRmMfUJTY https://t.co/qCzE2nwwdi ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1115777159774318594?s=03 ) ________ 28 min video – Oslo Blockchain Day – Merging the Physical and the Digital using blockchains (my ‘quotes’ below are paraphrases of vinay.. not direct quotes) Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:05 AM – 5 May 2019 : My @OsloBlockchain

[passage 84](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) a million people who will starve to death this year. Socialism failed. Now what? https://t.co/3BRmMfUJTY https://t.co/qCzE2nwwdi ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1115777159774318594?s=03 ) ________ 28 min video – Oslo Blockchain Day – Merging the Physical and the Digital using blockchains (my ‘quotes’ below are paraphrases of vinay.. not direct quotes) Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:05 AM – 5 May 2019 : My @OsloBlockchain keynote, MERGING THE PHYSICAL AND THE DIGITAL, looks at how the @Mattereum approach will do for objects what the internet did for information. @ExtinctionR, climate, rebuilding the global economy to be clean and green. It’s a big talk! https://t.co/FZ1EQrFwNV ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1124978430271946753?s=17 ) (on everyone wanting high standard of living w/o hurting planet): not worried about destruction.. solar panels will take over destructive means of energy.. will carry on as now now? ie: burger king making vegie burger.. soon no longer need meat 12 min – can’t imagine going back before the web allowed us to search anything on web.. same way for physical world.. outcomes of all info on net have been ie: translation 14 min – if you put everything on line of physicals.. will be unthinkable just as translation there are already numbering systems for physical things.. we have huge amounts of this data sloshing around in silos.. what we haven’t had is a convergence of this data.. all the data is already there.. if un siloed.. could give a number of warnings.. ie: ingredients in foods you buy 17 min – this could lead to automated morality.. ie: if don’t want to buy tobacco/alcohol anymore.. credit card can over see that.. but you’re in control of those policies.. we’re in a position where advertisers are in charge of this now 18 min – blockchain is a way of us doing collective knowledge.. in a way that allows us to make sense and make decisions together what we need more is a mech to free us up daily to curiosity (rather than decision making ) it’s not more revolutionary than what we did to software.. where we get ie: wikipedia if tightly tied to payment.. into reality of how world works ? 21 min – if you could tie this automated morality and open data framework together w the payments as the third rail.. have ability for people to navigate their way thru the complexity of the world of an existing/ supposed to world (like ie: whales in sea world ).. not a free world.. which is the real potential we have today.. ie: getting us back/to an undisturbed ecosystem a parody between us as individual actors and the forces that tend to control us like ie: payment aka: money (any form of measuring / accounting ) 22 min – the consequences are not as bad as we think they are.. ie: offset of carbon not that large.. expensive in impoverished places.. but here.. card lets you know when purchase if carbon excessive.. adjusts.. not much more to buy diff 24 min – company to do this: mattereum..

[passage 85](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) aka: money (any form of measuring / accounting ) 22 min – the consequences are not as bad as we think they are.. ie: offset of carbon not that large.. expensive in impoverished places.. but here.. card lets you know when purchase if carbon excessive.. adjusts.. not much more to buy diff 24 min – company to do this: mattereum.. allows everyone.. to find out everything (metadata) on what they buy/sell 26 min – how i got here.. 2002 i invented hexayurt.. trying to build humanitarian solutions to refugee situation we knew was coming.. turns out it was not enough.. if we don’t change thing at head end.. they way we do that is thru transparency.. ie: software to map our impact.. as we nudge ourselves back from the abyss.. we do the hard work of indexing matter.. and we clean up our societies from richest/most-capable places first.. _________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:36 AM – 8 Jun 2019 : The age of the (hexayurt) https://t.co/Yz4zmth8Mk approaches. I started work on it in 2002, and devoted most of 14 years to figuring out how to rehouse 300 million climate migrants. See https://t.co/4hWmzoTBXG for the rest of the tool kit. I’m working hard on asset governance now @mattereum https://t.co/B7OZwPE5Kj ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1137307485042290688?s=17 ) __________ thread Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:00 AM – 9 Jun 2019 : And almost nobody is broken enough to suppress their true identity as they try to imitate icons of success. Who you are will always surface. The internal conflict between the mask and the man creates paralysis. Almost nobody can Be Somebody Else well enough to win wearing a mask ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1137690862878711809?s=17 ) and that win is no win ie: wilde not-us law ; whales in sea world ________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 5:57 AM – 20 Jun 2019 : I have to remind myself every so often why I am doing what I am doing: I came into the blockchain space hoping to become wealthy enough to privately finance a large scale innovation project to handle climate refugees. I put in 14 years pre-Ethereum. See https://t.co/4hWmzoTBXG ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1141676418960646151?s=17 ) [..] Much as I get a little lost in the weeds sometime, this is what I’m doing with my life: inspired by Elon Musk to participate in capitalism to earn the money to fund the R&D to scale the hexayurt project to manage the climate refugee crisis FOSS people might call this # YakShaving super.. but hexayurt ( living spaces ) not enough.. need people to be free too/ first .. still same cycle (yes kinder but) if don’t let go of ie: supposed to’s .. of school / work ________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:16 AM – 23 Jun 2019 : I think the problem with getting people to act on the climate crisis isn’t culture, but instinct. Also, scale – there are just too many people for all previous models of cooperation to work. Even authoritarianism doesn’t work at a planetary

[passage 86](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) to’s .. of school / work ________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:16 AM – 23 Jun 2019 : I think the problem with getting people to act on the climate crisis isn’t culture, but instinct. Also, scale – there are just too many people for all previous models of cooperation to work. Even authoritarianism doesn’t work at a planetary scale. It’s one hell of a ramp. #filter ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1142768282820390916?s=17 ) model of coop not yet tried: 2 convers as infra __________ Feels like the end of a 20 year cycle. I’ve taken a lot of roles, tried a lot of things. Some successes, more failures, much learned. The scenarios I foresaw in 2001, hundreds of millions on the move because of climate change, now seem close enough to touch. I wish I’d done more. Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/114332015541136588 9 _________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 5:55 AM – 30 Jun 2019 : The objective for @Mattereum was twofold: 1) make the money necessary to fund my own philanthropic technology projects, given that conventional funders are too short sighted to do infrastructure development, and 2) build a “stuff tracker” for the entire world. Nice, clear goals. ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1145299703929528320?s=17 ) Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:00 AM – 30 Jun 2019 : The goals are really clear. But wow the world is filled with fail. People just cannot keep their minds on the big goals. I started the hexayurt with a 30 year plan in mind, because everything I could see made it clear that’s how long change on that level took. I was 30, aim at 60 ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1145301119675109376?s=17 ) Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:03 AM – 30 Jun 2019 : But we have no social mechanisms for funding projects which will get done over 30 years, other than funding them a year at a time. We don’t even have academic tenure any more. How are we going to plan for the far future, if we can’t *plan for the far future* because of budgets? ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1145301792684761089?s=17 ) design/plan for budget (money/measure) to become irrelevant Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:05 AM – 30 Jun 2019 : “Feed all the people. Build the space ships.” How hard is it really? If we put all these lovely big computers on it, if we actually focus on meeting both human needs and human aspirations? If we treat natures as having rights? The abstract models are easy and mostly unchanging. ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1145302427723325441?s=17 ) first.. need detox.. to get to legit needs/aspirations.. currently we’re like whales in sea world Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:14 AM – 30 Jun 2019 : But the bastard is the interface between simple, clear goals, and the dumpster fire of human history and current practice. The mechanisms we have for financing and monitoring big jobs just isn’t there, and the sum of self interest still is not universal benevolence. There’s a gap ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1145304569645273088?s=17 ) Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:16 AM – 30 Jun 2019 : I

[passage 87](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) is the interface between simple, clear goals, and the dumpster fire of human history and current practice. The mechanisms we have for financing and monitoring big jobs just isn’t there, and the sum of self interest still is not universal benevolence. There’s a gap ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1145304569645273088?s=17 ) Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:16 AM – 30 Jun 2019 : I think there’s room – and yes, this is a blockchain project – for something which has the general structure of a charity, but is transparent down to the dollar level – and can therefore be trusted to do jobs which are currently largely left to government (i.e. vaccines / space) ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1145305021342502912?s=17 ) oi ________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:08 AM – 19 Jul 2019 : My sense, looking at the news, is that we have passed another level down in the fascism process. It’s not any single thing, it’s the shape of things interconnected. It’s like there’s no stabilizer left, the resistance seems exhausted. What do we do now? ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1152188400885215232?s=17 ) maté basic needs as stabilizer let’s focus on and facil that ie: 2 convers as infra ________ mattereum Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:05 AM – 6 Aug 2019 : This is pretty much my TED talk on @Mattereum and automated morality. https://t.co/djG2UI3EV7 A ten minute rundown on how the blockchain can change the way we make decisions to make it easy to do the right thing. Now, more than ever, we need tools for change. ( http://twitter.com/leashless/status/1158710671820935168?s=17 ) tools for change we need most: mech to listen to daily curiosity .. renders decision making secondary to irrelevant tech as it could be .. _________ vinay on identity ________ We need new ways to get clean. Something like Alcoholics Anonymous but for moral compromise and for “turning a blind eye to things.” This is what animates both https://t.co/3gnfvEOTJV and https://t.co/s5TOuGP9fX Getting to the truth. Overcoming our willful blindness, together. Original Tweet: h ttps://twitter.com/leashless/status/1162906672697880576 detox via daily curiosity ie: cure ios city _________ matterum manifesto keynote Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 7:01 PM on Tue, Aug 20, 2019: To fix this we would have to get everybody down to one planet’s worth of consumption. How much pain that causes depends on how good our technology for stretching that one planet’s worth of resources is. Almost all other political questions are irrelevant. Think in footprints! ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1163979473450164224?s=03 ) perhaps easier if we first create an environ where 7b people aren’t trying to fill holes ( almaas holes law ) with irrelevant needs/wants.. think in cure ios city ________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 5:33 AM on Thu, Sep 12, 2019: For the first time in my life, I think I have a reasoned pathway forwards which makes me thing humanity might be mostly alright in the future. It was a shift of perspective about how we use engineering. Nothing metaphysical. Just a reframing of the problem statement. It’s good! ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1172110958635958272?s=03 ) There will be a big ol’

[passage 88](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) 12, 2019: For the first time in my life, I think I have a reasoned pathway forwards which makes me thing humanity might be mostly alright in the future. It was a shift of perspective about how we use engineering. Nothing metaphysical. Just a reframing of the problem statement. It’s good! ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1172110958635958272?s=03 ) There will be a big ol’ blog post with the gory details in the next few days. It’s been a long, slow process here, integrating @mattereum with my earlier environmental work from the early 2000s. Feels solid. Feels right. It’s as hard as oak, and as clear as pyrex. 44 min read: How post-industrial capitalism and a new type of big data will save the planet Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 3:06 PM on Fri, Sep 13, 2019: https://t.co/5DqxV53Cif is the @Mattereum business case, for how #Ethereum smart contracts can fuse to Digital Twins to produce a new kind of capitalism – a capitalism capable of providing for seven billion people. ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1172617513194139649?s=03 ) We need transparency, accountability and trust to govern the world, and Mattereum will deliver it we need trust.. we just need trust – unconditional trust (oxymoron) for unconditional free\dom (oxymoron) Our goal is to enable a significant reduction of the environmental and social harms caused by inefficiencies in industrial capitalism answer is 7b people living their fittingness The problem is vast and twofold: it lies in the way industrial production has been engineered to respond to demand and consumption , to the neglect of investment and the disposal of objects at the end of their lifecycle. This leads to significant environmental and social harms and trillions in wasted or lost revenue. rather.. problem is in our focus on production/demand/consumption.. most sustainable/thrivable thing to focus on is daily curiosity ie: cure ios city Psychological needs cannot ever be fully satisfied by material things. We all know this, but we all play the game (for now). almaas holes law .. begs we focus on the two things each soul already craves.. ie: maté basic needs The mechanisms we have been using to get good outcomes are not working any more: the mechanisms we expect to help the system self-correct all seem to point the wrong way at the wrong time, and the levers of change appear to be connected to the 8-track player in the dashboard, not to the wheels. We can change the music, but we can’t seem to change the direction. We are skidding. perhaps we need a mechanism that makes outcomes obsolete .. we need to change more than the direction.. is it a wonder that we can’t think straight about what we want? exactly – whales in sea world – we have no idea With the click of a button, the smart contract activates, processes the transaction, and buyers can now enjoy an unparalleled level of protection from misinformation regarding the things they buy. this is like fixing a mech to help cancer better perpetuate itself we have the means

[passage 89](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) what we want? exactly – whales in sea world – we have no idea With the click of a button, the smart contract activates, processes the transaction, and buyers can now enjoy an unparalleled level of protection from misinformation regarding the things they buy. this is like fixing a mech to help cancer better perpetuate itself we have the means .. to now make money (any form of measuring / accounting ) our planned obsolescence ___________ tweet from vinay about same 44 min read article @leashless: Gupta # Longreads crew medium.com/humanizing-th e... there’s fifteen years of wisdom crammed into this thing, and it’s a fundamental analysis about how to fix industrial capitalism using the # blockchain . Read, analyze, process, promulgate. We need new thinking on the global situation. ‘protection from misinfo regarding the things they buy’ not deep enough ‘new thinking on the global situation’: money (any form of measuring / accounting ) our planned obsolescence .. ie: ubi as temp placebo .. @leashless: money as planned obsolescence? I don’t understand. ie: ubi as a temporary placebo.. to free people up enough to not think about money/measuring.. so we can realize we don’t need it.. in fact.. that it (money/measuring) is poisoning us @leashless: I’ve got nine billion people to feed, and finite land. I need to do math to make this work... perhaps.. and perhaps that’s what keeps getting in the way.. i’m thinking that doing the math.. is what’s gotten us to where we are now @leashless: Nobody doing the math properly got us here. admire your work/drive/insight.. hope you’re right.. i just think this is one major mistake we keep making over and over.. thinking math.. (rather than getting the conditions right – 7/9 b free people – and then trusting that/us) could ever fix this.. could ever be proper/legit of math and men et al undisturbed ecosystem et al ‘in undisturbed ecosystems ..the average individual, species, or population, left to its own devices, behaves in ways that serve and stabilize the whole..’ – Dana Meadows ____________ Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 9:15 PM on Thu, Oct 10, 2019: The solution may be incremental patches to the current status quo. But you, my dear friends, feel the subtle evil of the nuclear bombs, asleep in their silos, every time you pay your taxes. This is the real world. Climate change is the *second* big problem. We ignored the first. ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1182494840673701888?s=03 ) we gotta go deeper .. Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 8:56 PM on Thu, Oct 10, 2019: You don’t get the world to work, or to safety, without addressing the nuclear issue. That’s the hellish spike that is driven into the human soul. “What is the matrix?” you ask? The Matrix is the psychological barrier we all put in place to cover Mutually Assured Destruction. ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1182490011624755200?s=03 ) so let’s work on that.. let’s go with a structure to address that.. not ie: nuclear bombs maté basic needs as stabilizer let’s focus on and

[passage 90](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) hellish spike that is driven into the human soul. “What is the matrix?” you ask? The Matrix is the psychological barrier we all put in place to cover Mutually Assured Destruction. ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1182490011624755200?s=03 ) so let’s work on that.. let’s go with a structure to address that.. not ie: nuclear bombs maté basic needs as stabilizer let’s focus on and facil that ie: 2 convers as infra structure Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 9:03 PM on Thu, Oct 10, 2019: “The Matrix” is the belief that civilizations that are dedicated to the sacred mystery of creating and maintaining nuclear weapons are, in fact, civilizations at all. If you want to dream, dream me a world in which we do use nukes to maintain our political boundries. Root issue. ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1182491974584209408?s=03 ) root issue?.. go deeper Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 9:08 PM on Thu, Oct 10, 2019: You want a mass awakening? These screaming lunatics are spending trillions of dollars of your money maintaining the capability to completely exterminate all life in your planet. Wake up to that. Let it hit you so hard you question the meaning of society itself. Savour it. Aware. ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1182493183860715521?s=03 ) yes .. this is ridiculous and may wake some people.. but it’s not the problem/focus/desire we need.. not deep enough to work as the infrastructure of our ie: cure Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 9:12 PM on Thu, Oct 10, 2019: You can’t fix this civilization with piecemeal mental patches. You need to get it clear in your head that the entire thing broke with the nuclear bomb, and we are cowed, terrified versions of ourselves, constantly oppresses by the unconscious fear of the nuclear end. Defuse it. ( https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1182494096813891585?s=03 ) defusing nuclear bomb.. part of piecemeal patches.. and would never really difuse it.. go deeper ie: gershenfeld something else law ___________ Nick Stewart (@nickstew_art) tweeted at 6:16 AM on Tue, Oct 15, 2019: “Fascinating” Mr Gupta! Isn’t that “disjunction” between production and consumption precisely where the politics sits? Can we really have a tech-fix without addressing capitalism? ( https://twitter.com/nickstew_art/status/1184080694374522880?s=03 ) @leashless: Can we run a consumer society *and* hugely cut waste? Yes, and this talk describes how https:// youtu.be/7vkcHRdH2r4 the short answer? Creators make digital identity for physical things which lasts the object’s whole lifetime, tracks carbon, and helps you sell it when you are done. 11:11 min video – oct 15 2019 – mattereum manifesto 1 min – (on shatner and star wars collectibles) why am i doing stuff with the collectibles when the world is in on fire .. climate refugees.. et al.. we need to get computers to deal with the real world properly collectibles and proper ness big part of the problem .. no? whales collecting things in sea world as real world..? 2 min – we’ve got 9b people.. the econ has left 1b starving and 1b fat.. enormous defense spending.. most military say is mis allocated.. et al.. our handling of the material world.. is in

[passage 91](https://redefineschool.com/vinay-gupta/) with the real world properly collectibles and proper ness big part of the problem .. no? whales collecting things in sea world as real world..? 2 min – we’ve got 9b people.. the econ has left 1b starving and 1b fat.. enormous defense spending.. most military say is mis allocated.. et al.. our handling of the material world.. is in shambles.. and that’s what’s producing/causing climate et al.. that entire set of structures is being driven by the fact that we don’t seem to be able to connect cause to effect in the physical world.. you go to a shop.. you buy something.. you’ve no idea where it came from again – what’s the point of connecting cause to effect for whales in sea world as real world..(buying things as ie)? that’s spinning wheels of a broken feedback loop .. getting better at.. spending time analyzing.. being distracted by.. the wrong thing.. what you might call irrelevants .. go deep er 3 min – if we don’t keep track of what’s happening in the world.. how can we ever expect to change what’s happening in the world.. if you don’t measure anything.. how can you modify.. we’re just *guessing two problems here: 1\ keeping track.. as in any form of measuring / accounting .. is poison/cancerous.. the problem itself 2\ trying to change/modify others.. we need to focus on setting people free first .. and then let go.. trust ( unconditional ) us i’m thinking that what you’re proposing is *being more accurate about the wrong things.. we have to let going of thinking we know things.. this is inspectors of inspectors ness.. too much vinay mufleh humanity law : we have seen advances in every aspect of our lives except our humanity – Luma Mufleh we’ve gone thru centuries of trying to get better control of things.. it’s kind of one of the hallmarks of wester civ.. trying to achieve control yeah.. control is a killer.. and why we haven’t yet gotten to global equity.. civilization et al we got really effective control of info over centuries of librarianship matters little if it’s the wrong info.. what we need to focus on is self-talk as data.. if we want to get back/to undisturbed ecosystem .. ‘in undisturbed ecosystems ..the average individual, species, or population, left to its own devices, behaves in ways that serve and stabilize the whole..’ – Dana Meadows librarian’s job was to know exactly what info was.. where it could be located .. how it could be obtained.. who had written it.. whether it was accurate.. part of legibility as control 4 min – that librarianship practice then poured onto the internet in the form of work that was done to org docs and pre standards for things like search data when we moved onto the web.. that bedrock of librarianship and all the statistical modeling that was done on info as we are doing w internet search.. all of that stuff is why we don’t

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