# Ouishare on global democracy and the real sharing economy > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [286]. 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/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: video, 2016-05-19 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Mv_vevNNQ. 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): International-tier coordination for climate. - Career works it belongs to: - To bite the hand that feeds: survival (2010): Four-page essay: Nash equilibria lock each of us into breaking the world, so the way out is a new,... (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) - Multipolar Realpolitik (2024): Essays arguing that a global truce among a few great powers, with treaties checked by AI, blockchains and... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - CheapID to Mattereum: One identity pattern, from a person's ID card in 2006 to warranties on physical goods in 2017. (through a work suggested by machine) - cyber and defense: Security work for defense clients, built on one idea: set rivals to check each other. Resilience and Opportunity in... (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) - nuclear / panflu: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans. (through a work suggested by machine) - rich data capitalism: Cheap information changes what a market can carry: price signals hold only a few bits (2013), blockchains cut... (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: Climate politics & democracy (29%); Open government & anti-corruption (14%); Capitalism, consumption & resources (14%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: failure to govern (1 here; 5 sources in all, earliest dated 2010); global governance (1 here; 18 sources in all, earliest dated 2009); ConsenSys (1 here; 23 sources in all, earliest dated 2002); jobs (1 here; 85 sources in all, earliest dated 2003, 4 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.25 (1.00 is the top), number 310 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [747] [Startup Societies Podcast - Episode 34 - Vinay Gupta (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/747.md): close in content (cosine 0.94) - [257] [Vinay Gupta - Oslo Blockchain Day - Merging the Physical... (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/257.md): close in content (cosine 0.94) - On the same works, just before: [287] [test edit (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/287.md); [288] [test (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/288.md); [290] [test (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/290.md) - On the same works, just after: [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); [282] [Wales 1 (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/282.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: Ouishare on global democracy and the real sharing economy, video, 2016-05-19, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Mv_vevNNQ; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [286], https://guptaoption.com/texts/286.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Mv_vevNNQ&t=0s) wrote a series um we shared experiences using back feeds the back seat I'm a little insecure about the article views of articles versus no articles of these terms the back page factor which I encourage you to check out let's pick the end I want to remind you that this is not just a talking to you even though it seems that way but that after every group of speakers you have an opportunity for QA on my Terrace just outside here and I'm sure with this group perhaps more than anything that we've heard so far you have questions in my do so I encourage you to join the mouths words our next speaker is be made Gupta there's been a small change we were going to have Steffan 12 from salah ketik here but as with all things bitcoins la chaîne Ethereum things are moving fast and changing fast so we have a little change Vinay is a strategic architect ConsenSys it was a project manager for the first Ethereum releases and this is exciting you take the designer of the hexayurt which is an open source to urgency shelter he is going to be talking about blockchain beyond bitcoin is that right welcome yeah okay hi everybody so maybe the place i should start is making sure that everybody is comfortable with their understanding of all time raise your hands if you're comfortable you know flickr okay right so linkage with nipple explanation because it looks like about eight percent of the audience I really are not comfortable very briefly working through time right and here is 1970 and it's when we invent the database and in this year we have one computer per organization and the computer is very heavily protected and guarded with a very kissable fragile we come across to the 1990s and in the 1990s we have one computer per person on the computer networks together to give you a kind of higher function you have a single individual machine and that forma of one machine per person and everything is network it's still the dominant paradigm of computing it's what we all use every [2:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Mv_vevNNQ&t=150s) day and there are a few variations there they'll end up in central computer which I'll say a little more about then we got over here on our own you know 20 tags you get evolution of Bitcoin and this mobile is really one computer entire planet it's the early stages of building a single interface to all the computers in the world whether these share information they share state they share programs so for example if you're using something like bitcoin the entire world agrees order five ounces if you're using something like ketheria meet our world and reasonable program is that you're running and so this model of 14 organization one foreign people wonderful world these are the three kind of powder in demotic ages of computing under the very first stages of the one computer per oil phase and it will be as different as the 1970s models and computer wars from the 1990s model so the difference will be from the 1990s models computing to the modern water continuous changes normal within there's a bunch of very very scary high-tech weirdness to produce the integration of all these little computers into what I had gotten calls the world's computer about fruit sense of integration is still its earliest stages we're only just triggering up-regulated do this the similar processes for the 1970s era involving like SQL query optimizer which you probably never heard of in the 1990s there's a whole bunch of very scary information-centric mathematics to make sure that you can successfully transmitted signal over an Ethernet cable if you don't know about that stuff don't worry about Bitcoin mining boom array but if you're my name it's a low level technical practical detail so [4:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Mv_vevNNQ&t=260s) within that framework what kinds of things can you do one computer per plant and this is kind of a mere notion but I think the obvious thing to do with one computer per Quanah in fix climate change before it destroys agriculture leaves billions of people start that seems in a fairly reasonable kind of an objective you know there are all kinds of local optimizations you can do with these things fundamentally big unsolved challenges with your ballot and faces our climate change and resource scarcity right we're just burning too much carbon although we are rapidly decarbonizing me economy it's nothing like rapidly enough also once we've decarbonize the economy there is no guarantee that there would be another intervention price is right on the back of it for some Rita so right now the world is run by essentially Trade Organization for nation-states called the United Nations and the United Nations is an organization which gives you no individual representation at all you only have representation through your government so it's all about surprising that we people don't feel like we have had a control of the world because we don't have any control of the world we have little bit of influence on our nation state but that our nation states are partners large trade organization and the Trade Organisation just really represent the people it only represents the organizational form of the nation-state a nation states over 30 years ago oriented to climate as a problem i have done essentially zero it's very clear that the nation's he is unable to engage in global challenges that require for bday adoption because 200 nation states are incapable of forming sufficiently shared understanding of the problem to then take effective option or solution and this is not a small crisis right but we can actually watch the carbon dioxide and the planetary warming information in front of us what we're seeing is a failure to govern ourselves in a way the quints our very existence of risk I felt think of a worse species person I'm sorry I worse at crisis for supposedly in her intelligent species to face right come to think of the worst crisis for supposedly intelligence meetings of favor than being sewn into government itself that it basically boils itself to extinction or e2 in quantum this is completely unreasonable so to get past [6:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Mv_vevNNQ&t=405s) this problem the one computer per world paradigm would allow us to potentially build global governance without golden government the distinction between governments and government is quite subtle but basically at the bank is an institution it moves money around and it provides services similarly a government is an institution which moves governance around and produces services so in the same way that pic point allows you to issue your own currency a theory of issues allows you to issue your own governments you can publish set of rules which are essentially law for any who chooses to prove their assets into your safe routes right this is quite radical but it'll break it down right 1970s databases thank you make these networks 2010 the network in the database and programming language combined into a single structure the frequent shopper into that global structure everybody in the world can see it everybody in the world run it all those pieces of information or fused into a home so suppose that I'm trying to do something about climate change suppose will be decided and these are big jobs but just for instance suppose we decided every large-scale emitter of carbon will publish it hard emissions directly off of water and by the water skin will mentor I be the new put a power station I mean a cold pop quam amount of oil refinery I don't think your car right we should take this very very large scale data we should enforce publication using public will we could you say that come painting techniques perfectibility and the fight against those will damage we can have broad scale public action for transparency and climate missions who can actually see where department is coming with all of that information loans into a mobile system we can then also pretend and this is quite speculative finger me [8:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Mv_vevNNQ&t=530s) up we can also potentially have one person one vote for the entire world to decide what we're going to do about this set of facts is the lifeblood of democracy is truth without truth there is no democracy and as you all know we have a very hard time reaching the truth these days because of the massive monopolization the media by large corpora interests without truth there is no democracy so if you start putting the facts of the situation all of the blockchains so that there is one treatment entire often see it becomes imaginable that we do that and democratic decision-making that all the wealth that the immediate question is how can we possibly get seven billion people that vote and the answer is you don't need seven billion people put if we had a hundred million randomly selected human beings around the globe for many issues a hundred million is a statistically significant some point if for example eighty percent of that 100 million people are very against an idea about 100 billion is genuinely chosen at random it is almost certain that if you didn't vote for seven billion people even still be a resounding universal know this notion that you could take individual statements of opinion plus extremely sophisticated public at any analysis of Earth and produce a rough estimate of global public opinion or set of key issues seems entirely credible a reasonable different academics or a different analysis of global data set but in the areas where there is a heavy conversions of opinion in the public it is likely all of those models will converge on the same basic thing so frame things which are between 60 and 40 percent split you might have lots of argument over that's 51-percent fifty three percent up forty-nine percent but for things were 80 20 or 70 30 they should be relatively easy to do a first analysis that tells us given a set of real facts what is the movie public opinion know that are things that this doesn't address in areas where the facts are heavily culturally determined for different cultures have different opinions about trifonov words it is very difficult to [11:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Mv_vevNNQ&t=670s) imagine system like this working so it's probably better for scientific data that is from our history or public opinion good example you can do Armenian Genocide where all tis true depends entirely on who you ask and it's extremely heavily fantastic right there hundreds of millions of people will tell you it never happened similarly in areas where that are heavy problems around the nature of the models or policies or trip repose a bunch of people say something will work about two other people say vote for it's very hard too much going on that basis due to any kind of solid evidence so this is not a universal way of fixing local democracy it's not a universal way of running the planet but I think it's a really good fit for quite a change and I think it's a really good fit for a lot of the other environmental issues around things like for example not a technology and biotechnology I think the world was overwhelmingly against for example the recent genetically engineered organisms directly into the wild and I think that it would be quite easy to have a global public opinion established where we can statistically prove that the role on the hall was against the rules of generals into the environment and once it is clear the lots of all the public opinion it becomes possible to punish the governments of the organizations which fork will offer the democracy in the name of the self-interest now in this sort more but all of the history of colonialism in the history of the invasion of poor countries my countries will turn out massively richer will eventually be exposed it's impossible to talk about the world at any kind of objective way without dealing with the thought that there is an enormous period of piracy and looted by Franklin the ancestors most the people that I see in the audience and the resources stolen during this period are still foundational wealth of Western societies similarly there's no way of dealing with that no way around the fact that something like ninety percent of the carbon that's been emitted into the atmosphere over the entirety of human history was emitted by even countries web through the Industrial Revolution early understand enormously rich and powerful on our bars and clocking in fear in special deployment process so when you get into this kind of model where you begin to talk about globalism gals are real practice for individuals one of the things you have to face is that we're going to wake up with a bow sleep or a future for the majority of the people that are in western countries if you [13:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Mv_vevNNQ&t=820s) actually have to pay fair prices for the carbon that you have met if you actually have to make reparations for the enormous transfer wealth during the colonial era if you actually ask for people over the world others opinion is they're not actually terrible pleased with the Western powers and what they've done with the money that they store so when we talk about building a truly global share regulars truth and there is democracy we will come to address the research division issues in the resource scarcity issues which is going to mean an enormous transfer wealth from the rich who stole it to cool fingers out testers install we can't have both mock racine until you are willing to abide by the rulings made by a brown pilot which was wronged whined during the colonial era and if you give people the power of democracy they will largely vote tops west and use those resources to fill in the enormous developmental deficits left by the whole new year and this is the point of the sword this is the hard chrome the price of the womb democracy is fearless Truth and Reconciliation around the colonial era are you ready for it or not I don't know about you all but I know that I get positively overwhelmed with so much information and ideas and things that gets to other thoughts that I have and I have my notes here so I noted something from this last panel so if we manage to get some transparent data on carbon emission and then we start to issue our own governance as a society we might come to start decarbonizing society through blockchain technology and decarbonizing society I'm sure everybody knows but basically is the idea of bringing value to the economy --- End of [286] Ouishare on global democracy and the real sharing economy. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [284](https://guptaoption.com/texts/284.md) Daniel Pinchbeck and Vinay Gupta discuss using... (2016); the most closely related, [747](https://guptaoption.com/texts/747.md) Startup Societies Podcast - Episode 34 - Vinay Gupta (2019); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.