# Digital Bauhaus 2016 backup camera footage

> One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [283]. 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: video, 2016-06-07 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SOFbze_Lg. Text: automatic captions, partly corrected
- On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the ledgers step (Ethereum launch, 2015), before the law step (Mattereum, 2017).
- How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Links the six needs to an economics of survival benefit for the poorest half of the world.
- Career works it belongs to:
  - The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out of ideas (2010): One-page paper: the richest fifth are eating the planet, so the next economy has to be at peace with other... (suggested by machine)
  - The Big Deal (2011): Four-essay blog series arguing that government has hit hard limits, so civil society, working with... (suggested by machine)
  - 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)
- 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. (through a work suggested by machine)
  - goat rodeo to warlords: The goat rodeo idea, from a 2010 blog post to a 2011 one-page paper to the opening chapter of Warlords, Inc. (2015). (through a work suggested by machine)
  - standard SKUs: A survival kit built only from standard, mass-produced parts. (through a work suggested by machine)
- Topics: Capitalism, consumption & resources (15%); Rural poverty & development infrastructure (15%)
- Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: resource control (3 here; 11 sources in all, earliest dated 2010, 3 undated); survival benefit (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); too hot (3 here; 42 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 6 undated); urban resilience (1 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2011); refugee camp (2 here; 36 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); refugee camps (2 here; 37 sources in all, earliest dated 2007, 1 undated); solar lights (1 here; 12 sources in all, earliest dated 2011, 1 undated); water filter (1 here; 14 sources in all, earliest dated 2010); basic needs (1 here; 15 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 2 undated); communications (3 here; 81 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 5 undated)
- Importance: core-text score 0.47 (1.00 is the top), number 119 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation
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  - [727] [Undergraduate Lecture Series 2024: Vinay Gupta & Bryan... (2024)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/727.md): close in content (cosine 0.94)
- On the same works, just before: [286] [Ouishare on global democracy and the real sharing economy (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/286.md); [284] [Daniel Pinchbeck and Vinay Gupta discuss using... (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/284.md); [863] [Vinay Gupta - Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/863.md)
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Cite as: Digital Bauhaus 2016 backup camera footage, video, 2016-06-07, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SOFbze_Lg; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [283], https://guptaoption.com/texts/283.md.

Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps.

## Passages
[0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SOFbze_Lg&t=0s) is to constantly imagine the total collapse of humanity in order to save Vinay Gupta is a disaster consultant and software engineer he has consulted on urban resilience for global engineering company Arab and is an Associate Fellow of the UCL institute for security and resilience studies Vinay is also the Rings coordinator for the Ethereum decentralized platform and run smart contracts now if you would like to learn our blockchain and the forest five million people in the world relay here is for his talk luxury communism on a dollar a day ecological limits dangerous technology and human survival please welcome to the stage okay hi so I want to cover in tournaments was here we do and I'm going to start at the very beginning with what we started talked about in terms of this basic human need web you know Mazel is zero base of the pyramid malta mother Shirley how does it work and they're really very very objective match with Mazel 0 so amid one myself basically there are only six things you've dialed being too hot being to call in hungry being thirsty being ill or injured and these are the six ways of people die they are lots of all sorts of subdivisions within them for example illness must cover five thousand different conditions but in a given society from the top ten illnesses kill eighty or ninety percent of the people and cyclic directory you take our car crashes and your people being something over in their bathtubs and their own a lot basically all of their injuries in most cultures in different cultures the lungs capable kills people Mary's norms so as you go to most extremely poor countries you'll still discover the tabasco is one of the major killer tits out this is here for the rest of the landscape is very very different possible before disease which we have not your first century all these elephants are different so run now these basic needs are not in man for most of humanity one third of the people died in this year will Dalek poverty the cause of their death will be directly related

[2:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SOFbze_Lg&t=150s) having enough money and this is no easier tarik kind of stuff like you needed 100 million dollar concert you from the governor pay this is your kids died because you didn't itell at the time your food go contaminate a few ways because there was no so finger top right one-third humans advises you about poverty one person seven experiences chronic hunger cause of disease malnutrition so the failure on this Muslim 05 was extremely large and every time that we've made repair that failure has failed right we've tried communism the result times I've been mass murder in starvation who tried capitals and there's all turns out between mass murder and starvation different people took the reasons different entity but the basic pattern is we don't know how to take care of everything simultaneously I'm going to be a really disciplined effort to try to make things worse rather than better so it's important that any solution that you propose to this problem and you have to solve this problem on the way to luxury communism there's no other way around any solution to be proposed this problem has not made matters vastly worse in the process of attempting to fix things this seems like a very simple straightforward basic principle so right now there's a

[3:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SOFbze_Lg&t=230s) very pragmatic approach which a lot of people will take to this which is technology machines and I want to think about this kind of on a time line with the past over here and over there will be the threaten the summer up here to the side the future so from here within four words people talk about the singularity this idea that you'll see at infinite convergence of different technologies to get us don't like our humanity so you can go forward 20 or 30 years you get nanotechnology you get biotechnology replication machines the artificial intelligence the problem with these technologies is the most of them all loopy for a really good chance of salt in this basic poverty program that we have it back also create a whole new class a whole new family of risks so once you go easy access basement bar technology you can just download the gene sequence for smallpox also a couple of things are text editor for making dangerous and then print the damn thing I would take you to your I school another hint of technology is not 500 years in the future it's not 50 years in the future it's 15 to 30 years in the future and nuclear industry really dances there's this variable down there this is kind of thing which is become impossible you have the same kind of dangerous during the office health replicated nanotechnology all of this kind of stuff is extremely dangerous the risk is that it will create a problem which is so much worse than the problem we have now that it makes the attempt to deploy actual existing real world communism with a positive research by comparison and that killed maybe I'll 50 million 250 people at a very cap these are extremely dangerous technologies so what I'm going to propose is it differently thinking about how we solve this model is your problem so that we don't get trapped on a false bridge by a false 14 work for one side there's this idea that well the only way of the current situation is that we deploy this 10 ultra technology white widow save us or you just have to accept that this kind of poverty is an essential for human life in your state I don't wanna stay force into ultra technology that we're not mature enough two handles of species yet because we thought the alternatives apartment poverty we only have to cover six causes of human dad in order to be a magician world wife threatened so it's good to

[6:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SOFbze_Lg&t=379s) you on a time too hot to cold is shelter problem and shelter is very interested in all this stuff and this is a shelter called hexayurt and the hexayurt air intake set a new time to do sorry the hex car is made of point or insulation boards the clever thing about it is only this the side piece of the wall is 1.2 x 2.4 meters the roof pieces are made by taking wonderful malteses cutting it in half making a triangle and then Mowgli on the river nothing to it and I've never an awful lot of these built-in to use their open source development world at taman is in katy most of the ones of syrah burnin down there a few africa there is a very large domes lots and lots and lots lots of use of these shelter all-world smutch more rapidly in western countries so in America they're building about 2,200 of these every year for burning man slowly they're being used in the commune's their dressing haven't been used in a small scale tells you things like villages for homeless people the whole thing is slowly moving forward to hope you call they hover on the order of one hundred dollars per person for the basic shelter maybe twice that if you want to use extremely unwise materials there's material called honeycomb proper polypropylene but you're let you build one of these shelters and it will last for only or for centuries for about a thousand units of shelter 500 fuel energy slightly smaller units so I'd like to suggest that the shelter park to own few corners extremely easy effects this is the pictures of Hector through satellite pictures from burning on and you can see they're just building fields of the things and as you scroll round maps you can see little units dotted around the place and this is completely phenomena or architecture people to download in the designs of the internet know their own sort so if I can work for American populations largely be skilled if it's a good enough shelter that rich people prefer to anything else that they can do it's likely to be good enough for a whole deployment so what does that leave for the rest of over with no regard too hot to cold right shelter clothing / clothing is that the student

[8:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SOFbze_Lg&t=529s) cheap it's around your budget stuff doors year there's absolutely no reason you have people with decent waterproof clothing it's an insulation there's no problem talk even if your budget is 500 dollars a year given how more modern materials last there's no reason you can't cover that hunger there's a charity for one acre found one acre fund has a training program that they do and quite scale in Africa the chemical bringing in the middle Central Africa bunch of San Francisco tag guys the web to the villages their agricultural trading trains will run doubles agricultural production so you take the villages which are just about food self-sufficient for the number of people they have now you come into those villages with just a transfer of knowledge you can double their agriculture I / and fifty percent of our game comes from teaching them how to plant maize program instead of six inches deep on three seeds six inches apart nine inches deep at one see and that single change increases based eruption by fifty percent the roles of all produces more than twice the number of calories we need to feed the human race and that's including the environment a huge amount of Wanda me to vote to growing need so hunger is entirely on my problem there is no fundamental production from hunger and in the face is very have subsistence agriculture until you get climate changes from their agriculture because of throw there's no transfer of knowledge is enough to begin to build a stable foundation for food and this gets even better and you get to introduce food preservation technologies so once you can teach people things like jar and tonic pickle in once you can forget to provide proper metal containers for grain storage the possibilities for increasing the agricultural well-being are quite water it's not as easy problem to solve in urban areas but in the areas or people are already drawing moves of their own food increasing the efficiency food is not nearly as difficult as people to tell it's an entirely soluble problem which is surprising and then you have got thirst right over here that are a set of very promising new technologies and basically the water filtering technology before you take your dirty that water polluted with microorganisms viruses and filter it let's improve like of all recognition in the past 20 years and they've taken things called strong filters from industry that originally developed for processes or kidney dialysis and the stro filters don't fall so filter posting one hundred and fifty

[11:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SOFbze_Lg&t=679s) dollars will produce 80 metres power and for basically decades without clogging because an entry to stroke the filter is back flushed by clean water there's a little kind of pressure string in there on the result is you can provide you know Walter from villages of the same level that you provide waves but the water is clean there's a phenomenon can be the dominating and that kind of technology is deployed everywhere in the hiking or those filters are completely standard in the hiking World Report oil filters and humanitarian groups are working with a technique use a little pump pressure moons called a safe water trust so lots of automotive action there there's also a project called aqua which is a water and sanitation charity in the Netherlands and it maintains a library of open-source appropriate technology 400 water or popular people and its young 40,000 pages or something crazy like that I'm so you having four sections are 800 Appropedia is a much wider project for 2008 to information superintelligence so warfare basically a soluble problem all of this assumes that you've got basic stability it doesn't apply to areas I've been heavily distracted by climate illness waterpark disease we got rid of that filters indoor air pollution huge killers with people cooking over stoves which are very smoking kills what same number people cigarettes depending on how he lost with certainty millions here there are things volute gasification so switch getting rid of that problem you can buy the man amazon for 13 years of opting for tea from China and my hands 113 euros very cheap the good ones are maybe for over 50 euros but if your budget is a dollar a day right $350 our family per year over the course of five or ten years you can accumulate all of this kind of technology or it could be given and then paid back solar lighting and I'm finding it sort of indoor air pollution because you know our kerosene is completely taking over in Africa and South America because its way to put in kerosene it saves families a hundred dollars a year of their income going through kerosene to soar life and then you just brought by charities are buying at their local directors it's going right down the diesel supply chains forever before a whole and cigarettes our own solar lights so there's no doubt at all that you can take massive statin illness without having to do things up genetically engineer mosquitoes I'm not necessarily against genetical engineering mosquitoes I just want to be

[13:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SOFbze_Lg&t=829s) clear that there's not so what you can do without getting the sub template where you decide the genetic mosquitos is a great little vulture disease finally usually crash helmets reasonable safe driving practices and not having civil wars on your territory that's basically container of injury you still have the tendon industrial safety slaps they took centuries first implemented western countries but its center a byproduct of unionization and you have to increase the amount of powder the workers have before they can get say for working environments that's a relatively small killer so the thing I

[14:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SOFbze_Lg&t=867s) want to illustrate here is during 10 minutes we've basically touched from every single major cause of human death and indicated that there are cheap affordable technologies which can make a massive impact on those courses and none of this stuff is dangerous you cannot easily kill people or water filter so it's a jump to an extremely high level of technology with those water filters are proper nanotechnology inside but without any actual field risk from deploying them in the same when you might get fueled risk if you would deploy genetically engineered mosquitoes to defeat malaria because the risk is in the wolf at the ecosystem our own ways does that make sense is a kind of base case that's a lot of technical information to take it quickly but this is the basic model that we might have a bunch of technological solutions which are safe and cheap effective basically solve this life of poverty basically makes sense okay so none of the zoom by the waterside a larger more they have the six basic human needs powder flourished illness injury to home too cold our individual means you need to cover those needs for a single biological human to continue to exist for those reasons for improves that need to our transport working space communications and a non-physical federal resource control so workspaces the fine build in the written communications is how you knew where to be and when to be there it's your maps but it's also the message this events happen here transport mechanisms used to get in here so communications obviously the ever-present cell phone works faithful you've seen the buildings you can go from the small ones which are houses to the large ones which are just as easy Billy all the problem saying use that for school or work spatial anything else what about Bob transportation is bicycles and buses since I bus rapid transport extremely cheap technologies not a lot of work is going to producing a truly efficient to manufacture bicycle this still use a lot of tricky techniques like get welded steel but even so if you try to buy an order to push back in China you'll find a quite portable and if we did serious engineering for absolute minimum cost long life morning that's bicycle there's no doubt at all we could get a breakthrough and resource control is

[16:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SOFbze_Lg&t=1007s) we're watching actors so resource control is how it is that we're using this space for this event rather than it being used to host for example a historians conference the fact that we have control of this resource with this room now is because the organization that has control of this space illegal lateral and all the legal stuff by the way on this map is founded over here they don't it's tied up and legitimacy of the state in the car westfalia traditional structures the jurisdictional matrix and the fact that we've controlled this resource here is the decision was made by allocating money and allocating money is basically the only way that our societies hun of allocating scarce of resources and all their societies will use all kinds of different mechanisms for allocating scarce resources you can find examples in traditional culture or in the world of rights for only allocated by inheritance so in an Aboriginal culture to sing a particular sort our particular story you have to be a descendant of the person of the story is about and the inheritance of the normal title is another wheel of an asset passing which didn't have money attached with clerical titles the archbishop this wasn't something you were different least all about all of these kind of structures are basically worship our societies in favor of property mechanism called money and that property mechanism works very well at the top and it's good way of allocating resources in things like auctions but performs very very poorly on the long tail because you basically wind up with an unknown man unknown represented differential so an extra hundred million dollar which means almost nothing to build gains an extra 100 million dollars between a total transformation of a poor city and the fact that one hundred million dollars means something different to people at the bottom end of society of the top end of society is a noble and guarantee in the response between money and that benefit there's moma linearity through money and welfare another result we cannot accurately price well are in financial terms because it can a hedonic payoff is kind of like this huge exponential benefit that when people are very poor then they're very richer more money has almost no implant because we don't price that into the financial system the money doesn't accurately reflect you can benefit so I'm going to

[19:17](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SOFbze_Lg&t=1157s) suggest a different way of approaching this which is billable society for extremely poor in difficult situations which is roughly half the worlds of individuals in which we price things in terms of human survival benefit so you basically take somebody's dad I'd you woke up on a boat chain and they can work backwards from their death to the series of events which caused them to die I'm going to assume for a moment your basic idea of blockchain is very briefly 1970s we do databases 1990s and networks we combine the database in the network into a single entity called a plot chain we end when the fury project is developed with anti-lock change or programming system so you're basically a single plant for this database network and programming language you look events in to this system there permanently recorded is the price of making an open accessible network is huawei.com doing anything else data and this is how we started hacking each other you could own write your own stuff you can counselor so Christmas star Logan death and working backwards from death we can begin to do root cause analysis of what kills people this number of people are killed by water problems this number 240 massage but you can take an artifact like a stove you distribute those in an area or monitor the rate at which before buying their works because after all if the transactions are being done watching you can see hoping for buying and selling you can measure the penetration various technologies you can begin to draw metrics between the available technologies and the greater hitch before done so you introduce assumes engine area five years later you know that the infant mortality has dropped I fifteen percent because you're no longer seeing the same in a chronic respiratory disease you were seen before ok the stoves in the solar panel they provide this lot of benefit in terms of the controlled environments of the refugee camp solutions talk about you can then imagine that you do the resource allocation in the side of the refugee camps using tor chains so you measure the food as it goes if you measure to spend on the food you with the Providence you track the people as they come into the refugee camps you track the technologies or if you're deployed you mash the statistics to tell you what the benefits are from those technologies you can then be price the technologies as they're deployed in both of the money required to purchase the technology to the market but you can also prices in

[21:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SOFbze_Lg&t=1307s) the human benefit that they will produce in the environment they're there to be deployed and this kind of thinking is that already inside of healthcare systems all over the world the unit is called cold quality adjusted life year and resource consumption in cyber systems like the UK natural health service is driven by quality adjusted life years they're used as a currency for managing the social cost benefit analysis around the spending money to produce you in welfare the advantage during the stuff of a blockchain is it it gives the ability to do independent analysis of the data you woke what was happening you walk it carefully mobic publicly the statistical analysis that accurately priced the welfare generated by the goods and services available can then be done by enemy of just objective statistical analysis to crack the binding between the money and then to derive from the money and you can also imagine factoring in any fortune and economics constant to this where you look at the environmental consumption over product you track up all the way into the statistical matrix which tells you which goods and services are helping people how much and what you get is essentially triple bottom line accountant the financial course the human benefit our human desa fit deficit and the environmental benefit or deficit wrapped together as a signal package which gives you an accurate unit value which can be used to correctly allocate resources 14 3 4 5 billion fewer people than we have in the world dependent on account now that paint in the probe

[23:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SOFbze_Lg&t=1407s) could take root inside of the refugee camp setting because these are controlled environments it could take sweet inside of poor villages if people move from nation today couch to something like a bitcoin on people to get to track property rights on blockchains as they go forward it interface is very nicely the tight assistance that we might need to control partner globally and the basic notion when you considered still you continue to run a hyper capitalist economy even sign of a very rich areas of the world over long tail runs on a much more holistic set of indicators so when option pricing with scarcity is up one end of the set in cash when your way down here on table humanity you doing in these units which have all three bottom line factors factor together this looks like an environment to do where we do correct resource allocation for the long tail of humanity to bring everybody up low level where they have reasonable to the welfare under which we time with which they can get educated or play video games or whether they like there's almost zero resource did something associated with digital goods so you could be a digital billionaire if you live in a small village and still grow of your vegetables and this T is a lesson one Farnsworth consumption luxury communes and trig more throughput some some luxury marble actually mouth so you're kind of digital millionaire luxury models in the bottom of the pyramid of long tail and then you'll leave the regular rich to do more or less itself is what they're doing that because at the end of the day we've got no way of controlling these people and if we have no way of controlling these people they attempt to fight with them for our resources so that we can straighten my apartment is probably futile if they're bigger and heavier than works nation-states we almost are McConnell displace the road rule of the billionaires but at the same time if it doesn't cost the billionaire's anything to fix the long tail with humanity's problems maybe we just let them run amok hope you'll wouldn't fight we can't win rather than focusing or all of our efforts on the vortex of energy and so some phenomenal to see it before me wrap up is something about genealogy lineage I'm good to embarrass our previous speaker horrible here so I got into all this disaster relief stuff because those were simply drooled and I redford story at by Bruce called Green 18 49 about a political religious coming out of Asia that is all built

[25:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SOFbze_Lg&t=1557s) around the idea of using open source appropriate technology to benefit the the mental no baseline to humanity and create some kind of system or work I remember to sleep review this one as both 17 and the flop firm in my head I could do that and yeah the role of culture introducing these kind of ideas never think that you're wasting your time on the arts because the engineers follow the art right life imitates art every generation of engineers read science fiction of absorbs the model grows up and then built right couldn't get the plugin commands without a fight with habit and the basic analysis then you can do enormous mass production human welfare from very simple stock materials you know what I got so there's no reason that we come building the world that actually works you do industrial mass production for we can do a lot for industrial massive eruption for you do mass customization for a new mass customization for our marketing resources directly back to properly pricing the assets in human terms in the ecological terms that are a benefit terms in the financial prospects we can actually do this we've got technology there's no reason to they're all like son

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End of [283] Digital Bauhaus 2016 backup camera footage. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt.
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