# Vinay Gupta - Resilience Guru | London Real (part 3 of 3) > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [689], part 3 of 3. 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, 2014-02-02 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rys_saLiDA. Text: automatic captions, partly corrected - 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): Popular statement of life support at planetary scale and its timeline. - Career works it belongs to: - SCIM / INAM (2009): Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps: 18 human needs across 7 scales, from the individual to the world. - FluSCIM (2010): Another author's application of the SCIM framework to pandemic flu. - Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (2013): UCL Institute for Security and Resilience Studies paper drawing lessons for city governments from... - The Living City (2009): A Buttered Side Down talk to the engineering firm Arup, with Mike Bennett: how cities learned to beat... (suggested by machine) - 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) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - STAR-TIDES: The National Defense University project and the papers around it. - 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. - 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: flu / infection / risk (12%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: London Real (6 here; 6 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); Stacktivism (5 here; 7 sources in all, earliest dated 2013); too hot (8 here; 42 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 6 undated); nanomaterials (2 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2013); too cold (7 here; 40 sources in all, earliest dated 2008, 7 undated); critical infrastructure (8 here; 54 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 7 undated); basic income (4 here; 21 sources in all, earliest dated 2014); refugee camps (5 here; 37 sources in all, earliest dated 2007, 1 undated); pandemic flu (4 here; 32 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 1 undated); refugees (7 here; 84 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 3 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): Mars; basic income; rich data; accredited investors - Importance: core-text score 0.53 (1.00 is the top), number 65 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [250] [Through the Looking Glass - Vinay Gupta on systemic... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md): same career work: SCIM / INAM - [322] [Vinay Gupta at the Athens Hackerspace, 2012 September 2 (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md): same career work: SCIM / INAM - On the same works, just before: [754] [Vinay Gupta shares his vision of a rural future (2013)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/754.md); [317] [Vinay Gupta (@leashless) of Hexayurt Project at the... (2013)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/317.md); [697] [Vinay Gupta - Resilience Guru - TRAILER | London Real (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/697.md) - On the same works, just after: [701] [Vinay Gupta - Gun Control Precedes Genocide | London Real (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/701.md); [696] [Vinay Gupta - Pandemic means Death? | London Real (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/696.md); [700] [Vinay Gupta - Basic Income | London Real (2014)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/700.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: Vinay Gupta - Resilience Guru | London Real, video, 2014-02-02, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rys_saLiDA; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [689], https://guptaoption.com/texts/689.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages, part 3 of 3 [1:10:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rys_saLiDA&t=4200s) there's a lot of Old Guard from the eagle days that it could be this is the supposed Japanese man that created bitcoin or who knows the anyways go look it up that guy right my Mythic figurehead what so what advice can you pass on tell the second best piece ofice was this it was just sit right the whole thing with meditation spirituality all the rest of that monarchy it all boils down to you just put your ass on the chair right what you believe whether you're doing it right all the rest of this kind of stuff first sit do a lot of sitting if it's not going anywhere go and get some help right but you know the sort of basic notion that like you have to have a practice before you can worry about if you're doing it right you know the discipline of actually turning up on the meditation cushion is much harder to acquire than technique well said well said I did some meditation in the in the past and yeah one of the one of my instructors said you know H you're not going to have a super you know amazing revealing experience every time you meditate sometimes it's going to feel like a crappy experience but it might benefit you later or maybe it won't but just get but just do it yeah yeah I me it really is weight training for the mind right most of the time you're not doing anything interesting weight training for the mind but the muscle that it builds the ability to pay attention to what you want to pay attention to and nothing else well said I like that um last bit of that is to the 20-year-old that's listening right now uh what advice do you have for them okay so I got two really gamechanging pieces of advice for 20-year-olds there is an amino acid called cysteine sold in the form of an acetal cysteine any health food store for about six bucks a bottle if you take it after you have been drinking you will never get hangovers I can't believe you just said that yeah right that is what 20-y olds need to know right um second piece of Life advice for 20-y olds is when you're absolutely jammed and you can't get your brain to work properly and you're just burned out DM AE used to be sold as DN and all been around since the 1970s a stic hen precursor does exactly what you wish coffee did don't use it for more than about a month a year because you weren't meant to be that smart okay is it legal yeah absolutely it is 10 15 bucks a bowt right it was it was used as a prescribed medicine for treating autism for years okay it was so safe and so side effect free that they just took it off the prescription list and turn it into a food supplement wow and that's the advice you give us to pres pharmaceutical advice well I mean look if you're 20 years old right bandwidth are hangovers and how much information you can cram into your brain right long-term advice look if you're 20 years [1:12:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rys_saLiDA&t=4350s) old today there is a 5050 chance you're going to make it to 600 right another great quote from well look you you know what life expectancy was in the US in 199 uh 1900 no uh 45 okay so we doubled our life expectancy in the last century right nanotechnology biotechnology evolving out of all recognition right 50% chance you're going to live to 600 come on I got to call on that Vette well L if you were in 1900 right the notion that life SPS would double in the next 100 years Unthinkable right if we were here today and I say that wife SPS will double in the next 100 years it did in the last one why would you expect it not to yeah we have some pretty serious Tech so okay so now know having that knowledge then what do they do differently well I mean the first thing is don't get killed in Stupid Ways right um I mean look if you're 20 years old everybody tells you that the world is going to look kind of sort of like a lame sci-fi movie right right when I was 20 years old it was Blade Runner and sure enough some parts of the world look pretty much like Blade Runner the rest of the world very well changed right and then you get these discontinuities where everything changes the invention of the atom bomb the invention of the internet uh first human being on Mars we're going to see the first human on Mars in the next 10 years maybe 20 probably 10 really right Lady Gaga is going to be singing in space within 2 years right I am really serious she's got tickets booked on Virgin Galactic you're probably right she will will it sound any different well I mean it'll sound very different to her because she's going to be sitting there having the overview effect that all the astronauts had of oh my God I'm looking directly at three billion year 13 billion years of void and this tiny Blue Marble where all the life in the universe is apparently really impressive especially if you space walk apparently it's just hard to imagine and our celebrities and our Rich are going to be doing this within the next decade right we're going to start getting the overview effect this knowledge of the preciousness of human life as a tiny puddle of livingness in an otherwise dead universe as far as we know we are the only life in the universe man yeah there's people that run statistical studies but yeah do you think that'll have a knock on effect like the psychedelics and make all those rich people that can buy the Virgin Galactic flights come back and be nicer and give back back to the world after they see it in its entirety up there yes I think it's going to bleed into the culture I [1:15:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rys_saLiDA&t=4500s) mean it will be the rich it'll be the creatives and then it will be more or less anybody who's healthy and well paid right what's going to come out of that is this we are basically in the same position culturally that the US was in at the end of the Vietnam War right we've had the War everybody understands that it was a bad War fought for bad reasons in a really inefficient way right we couldn't have screwed it up any worse if we'd tried other than Maybe carpet bombing Baghdad terrible War at the end of that the economy is knackered the government is burned out you know an enormous number of injured veterans everybody's just had enough of this right what do you do at that point everything goes back into cultural expansion done that that for a game of soldiers what's on the menu in the 1990s we got a peace dividend when the US uh beat the USSR economically we got 10 years of total total growth right it was the revolution every six months the world changed in a great New Way boom boom boom bo bo boom boom boom then we started the war retrograde motion everything rolls backwards it rolls downhill the fruit and the cream of the society is just burned into blood total wastage now we got the peace dividend back space is the next push so the next 10 years are going to be big is what you're saying right virtual reality is finally here in a real form right carak is running a company with $75 million worth of funding and a working domestic you can buy one for $200 VR Google right virtual reality private space fight boom boom it's Timothy we's agenda right intelligence increase space migration life extension all right well you heard it here first it' be interesting to see I don't think space is that interesting personally but you know maybe it is for some people well I mean when you go take a look around and see if you like it yeah maybe I will like it I'd love to go see it at some point um uh V uh thanks so much for coming on you're a fascinating guy to talk to you have so many different things to talk about it's really hard to find out exactly what it is that you know and do and you've studied because all of your interests they seem very varied I know you have like some mind maps and stuff on your website where I'm sure all this is interconnected in some way well it's a really simple thing right the interconnection is this right I'm a Hindu right I'm a pretty heterodox Hindu but I'm still basically a Hindu um I intend to continue reincarnating on this planet for another 60 or 100,00 years so it better be in good shape or I'm going to be pissed all right that's awesome on that note uh how do people get in touch with [1:17:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rys_saLiDA&t=4650s) you how do they find your website you know all the all the usual good stuff so um uh best place to start right is hexayurt.com that's the building X HX a y u r t yep okay uh or resilien maps.org where you can find the simple critical infrastructure map stuff uh on Twitter I'm @ leashless like a dog without a leash yeah where' that come from I tend to bite people okay Jesus uh yeah that's enough that'll get that's enough people they going okay awesome and what's up for you uh next year what are you doing software uh used to be a programmer got out of the bit when I got into energy policy uh just this weekend I sat down and I wrote my first real web application in about 10 years conf few were you Rusty oh God unimaginable but it felt good um well I you never forget SQL right so you know I basically SQL go Jason uh what do you call that thing again Ajax jQuery D3 uh SVG right you know just this long tool path all the way from crazy databases right the way to like bleeding edge Graphics it's amazing the stuff is fantastic okay so you're back well look I mean all of the Technologies right the web used to be basically just documents right and it was a system for chucking documents around it might as well been a file server right what I've realized is that the browser is now basically a thick client and the web is programs right you come to my website I show you a computer program I could just show you a document but I could show you software that does almost anything 3D graphics on the web really works Hardware accelerated 3D so I think you're going to see like virtual reality versions websites you know and this stuff is crazy like you know Levis is now making genes with with nanomaterials in them that's Spectra stuff yeah right l Warrior genes 4% Spectra right so you know 3D Graphics in 3D goggles as websites for companies and individuals that care enough to build the tech right 3D displays on things like phones are becoming relatively common now we're going to get some actual 3D content to go in those things software everywhere right not just internet of things but the web is a living breathing body of software rather than a pile of static documents all of this stuff is just rushing towards us Jesus you're going to have a big year next year all right um thanks so much for coming on I have no idea what title of this show cuz we we talked about so much stuff um but it was [1:20:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rys_saLiDA&t=4800s) a fantastic conversation I'm glad we got this on tape and everything so really fun so uh people will know uh more about you um as we say uh at London real it's about the journey if anyone knows that you do and peace is the accelerator what's that peace is the accelerator it's what frees up all the resources that we need to go forward CU we're not wasting our people and our money on Wars okay peace is the accelerator that's why everything is happening now all this stuff has gone super critical because the US is no longer burning its money on war that's why there's this sudden wave of cultural change right it's just like you know we're no longer burning the resources on the fight and all of a sudden the world weaps forward again well said all right I'm going to be thinking about this for a few days um V thanks so much for coming on I wish you well in your journey uh stay in touch and uh really a pleasure to meet you yeah nice meeting you too and uh thanks for Victor Tron who who set this up he's uh the crazy uh Hungarian who made this all happen so uh like I said uh enjoy the journey and uh take care lovely a pleasure okay this week on London re we have spoken word artist Sully breaks we always have this idea in our mind that we're going to get to where we want to be and then we can sit back and be like I've made it now let me enjoy life but the enjoyment comes from the journey how would you feel if I told you that crazy people would one day rule the world I relate to the tech industry cuz it's all rebellious you know what I mean and the fact you get people to fund these rebellious ideas is is winning you know what I mean if education is the key then school is the luck what is this tour Around the World in 80 Days as an artist your work is based on your experience imagine if you had lots more experiences if you met a lot more people and I mean my goal the lot um to release in the next year is this an album a portrayal of my work and something that is representative of everyone we will not let exam results decide our faith a journey into inspiration Innovation and information I suppose on Sunday London real presents suly breaks spoken word you're going to grow older you're going to grow wiser and you're going to look back at these things in a different light --- End of [689] Vinay Gupta - Resilience Guru | London Real, part 3 of 3. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [701](https://guptaoption.com/texts/701.md) Vinay Gupta - Gun Control Precedes Genocide | London Real (2014); the most closely related, [250](https://guptaoption.com/texts/250.md) Through the Looking Glass - Vinay Gupta on systemic... (2010); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.