# Vinay Gupta (Part 2) by Paul Tanasyuk | Blockchain, Identity, Resilience and Social Order (part 2 of 2)

> One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [691], part 2 of 2. 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, 2017-05-16 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05vU1mybals. Text: automatic captions, partly corrected
- On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the law step (Mattereum, 2017), before the great powers step (Multipolar Realpolitik, 2024).
- How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): International-tier governance and finance ideas.
- 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: Open government & anti-corruption (12%); culture / history / fiction (12%); housing / house / quality (12%)
- Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Course of Action (2 here; 9 sources in all, earliest dated 2011, 2 undated); clean water (2 here; 30 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 1 undated); global democracy (1 here; 12 sources in all, earliest dated 2012); platforms (3 here; 76 sources in all, earliest dated 2008); Wired (1 here; 22 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 1 undated); political change (1 here; 25 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); climate refugees (1 here; 28 sources in all, earliest dated 2010); Frontier (1 here; 35 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); India (2 here; 88 sources in all, earliest dated 2006); toilets (1 here; 44 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 5 undated)
- Importance: core-text score 0.23 (1.00 is the top), number 333 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation
- Related sources:
  - [677] [Vinay Gupta - A Radical Manifesto for Fixing the World (2021)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/677.md): close in content (cosine 0.95)
  - [572] [How To Address Climate Change: Diplomacy, Politics,... (2022)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/572.md): close in content (cosine 0.95)
- On the same works, just before: [157] [The Black Elephant Challenge for Governments | IPS Commons (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/157.md); [268] [Thomas Bjelkeman of Akvo.org and Vinay Gupta of... (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/268.md); [267] [The future of humanitarian innovation (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/267.md)
- On the same works, just after: [699] [Vinay Gupta, Hexayurt.Capital | Blockchain: Ecology,... (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/699.md); [690] [FSCONS 2017 - Vinay Gupta - Resilience (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/690.md); [740] [Hexayurt Interviews - Vinay Gupta and Bob Vrtis - at... (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/740.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 (Part 2) by Paul Tanasyuk | Blockchain, Identity, Resilience and Social Order, video, 2017-05-16, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05vU1mybals; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [691], https://guptaoption.com/texts/691.md.

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

## Passages, part 2 of 2
[36:48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05vU1mybals&t=2208s) whoo but in order to do that you will have to change many values to share behind Western societies are quite strong mm-hmm but this to me is a fight worth winning right because I think that scientific proof is a fundamental fruit of Western civilization right and it's probably the most important innovation in human culture since the invention of agriculture you know people say to the Industrial Revolution but no science to industrial revolution you can't build a steam engine about calkins so that notion that there is a kind of critical point where we discover a new way of knowing the world yes and that we're in danger of losing out there's a politicization because of outright bribery is it stupid to formal mills and all the rest of this stuff that to me is a huge threat and I think that you know I don't like to talk about things like reparations and dead but if the price of the Western world extracted in the colonial period is ever going to be paid off it ought to be by maintaining silence in Ruby useful for men and using science to fix the rest of the world's problems right on very few Westerners identified with science as being a fundamental creation of their culture that has to be defended above all well so I think it is because if we lose scientific truth because the market even said where we move scientific truth because politics into it enough the climate scientists were backing up 200 terabytes of climate data right now in case Trump orders into a razor mmm imagine the horror you know in that environment there is something worth fighting for and the idea that that was something were Western culture really was a spearhead in a director which is objectively right and objectively good to me is the natural answer to the whole colonial trip like we know what colonialism it happened but we did science undergoing to get it right we're going to keep getting it right to me feels like a balance point in a way that for example reparations don't yes and the weak identification between Europeans and Americans on the scientific method as the fundamental fruit of their culture probably is the single and scariest thing that is happening right now right I want to see Westerners rallying around science if they need a cultural loyalty to something that they've done to say actually we are not just a plague upon the species but actually we've done something that's important and that is for something and and I wonder how you change culture in such a way that people are proud of having invented science and will defend it one with the rest of their identity do you believe in technologically induced change for example blockchain technology AI can be one of the drivers

[39:18](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05vU1mybals&t=2358s) of this change that would have effect on society as a whole I mean I think for example that the blockchain could potentially affect scientific publishing and if we can fix scientific publishing and peer review we could keep the politics out of the Sun so we can keep the money out of the science and we can actually get real research done you know I mean even if it was things like crowd funding scientific research I think there's an enormous amount of stuff particularly in physics which could get funded backgrounds there are all kinds of things that people won't be able to do they can because universities are not funding at a higher level yes you know there's a real possibility of building your kind of Star Trek utopia on those kind of crowdfunding efforts around scientific research and you know I just I just don't see enough cultural cancer silence and the struggles around identity and colonialism and kind of you know laughs with intersectional feminism that kind of attacks quite identity has been like well what if white people ever do for the world responsible no maggots right I think that the absolute counterpoint to that excuse me here is science this is how we go out of poverty it's the best chance we have survivals upon it we really ought to be double down on that success in in the upcoming cultural wars which seem likely become increasingly vicious I don't see anybody fighting for tiles as no there's a fundamental change that happened here and if we stand on that fundamental point we will not sort them to our I'm talking to them - yeah thank you very much for this very interesting conversation interview and we touched upon questions such as watching artificial intelligence or the cultural change and were there anything even though we might not have answers right now but you'll keep looking for them and I'll definitely you'll see many interesting things coming up

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End of [691] Vinay Gupta (Part 2) by Paul Tanasyuk | Blockchain, Identity, Resilience and Social Order, part 2 of 2. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt.
Read next: next on the same works, [699](https://guptaoption.com/texts/699.md) Vinay Gupta, Hexayurt.Capital | Blockchain: Ecology,... (2017); the most closely related, [677](https://guptaoption.com/texts/677.md) Vinay Gupta - A Radical Manifesto for Fixing the World (2021); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.