vinay gupta

2026 update – vinay’s new site: https://guptaoption.com/

intro’d to Vinay via Doug here:

oct 2013

Vinay Gupta shares his vision of a rural future

developing countries, africa, leap frogging the track (the track Ellsberg talked about ie: move to city to get enough money to move back to the country) – by just staying rural..

rural life – centered around the bicycle, the solar panel – just

11 min – we took an early branch – to fossil fuel.. it dead ended.. but the rest of the world that hasn’t industrialized.. can learn from all tech/failures.. pull what is what’s best out of culture and go straightforward.. what you’re left with is self-sufficient peasant agriculture.. without having to go to city to get rich first…

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from Doug’s words in his post:

What we can do though, I suppose, is make cities nicer places to live. Cities are actually pretty good per square mile in terms of efficiency. Making them nicer places to live, though, would mean jettisoning our rugged individualism and inherent competitiveness with peers. These are the kinds of things that lead to families buying two cars and driving everywhere instead of demanding better public transport. And, you know, if we pooled together we could all work 21 hour weeks while providing a minimum basic income for all. We could end poverty, at least in our own country.

But we don’t do any of this. Why? Because we’re trapped and immobilised by a nostalgic mythology. Instead of demanding and working towards something different and better, we’re spurred on by consumer culture that tells us we ‘deserve’ more of the same. The truth is that most of us aren’t going to attain the dream they’re peddling. All we get to do is silently, seethingly observe in the media other people doing things presented as ‘normal’. The truth for most of us is that those things are increasingly merely a distant dream.

so yes.. let’s leap frog us in the (supposed) developed world as well.. learn from mistakes.. take things that worked.. but let’s re-open (?) our minds.. to the unlikely.. the non-assumed .. the seemingly i’mpossible.

in the city.

as the day.

ness.

a people experiment

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gupta roadblock law

vinay on cities

vinay on identity

vinay on lying

vinay on rights of children

vinay on spiritual colonialism

vinay on the oracle problem

telling people what to do

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http://www.treehugger.com/culture/the-th-interview-vinay-gupta-on-opensource-disaster-relief-and-pod-ambiance.html

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jun 2014 article – Of Moonshots and Slingshots

[https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/publications/archive/policy_innovations/commentary/000282]

It is sobering to stop and ponder: “If everything I do succeeds completely, will I have made any difference at all.” It is a much harder question than “Can we do this?”

I do not have answers. In addition to being a policy researcher I am also a technologist. I have noticed that over time my policy work washes out but my technologies gather strength and support. Can we draw lines and rally around them? When does policy or technology become politics?

I want you to stop for a moment and ask the hard question about your own work. Given the onrushing global issues of various kinds—the big, bad ones with gigadeath tolls or near-permanent cultural damage, never mind the ecocide—if everything you are working on succeeds, will it matter? If not, you have failed before you started.

Consider only this: Maybe we need to put all our force into a few absolutely critical targets; massive triage of the endless list of good causes that attract our attention, focused down to a sharp spike, something with a clarity and focus just as strong as the financial motive of the markets, or the desire to perpetuate power in politics. Perhaps if we discontent policy actors abandoned our posts on this planetary Titanic, we could actually fight our way to the engine rooms and do something about this mess.

It’s not hard to assess whether what you are doing matters. It is hard to choose to make that assessment, and to..

..disengage with what is irrelevant.

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africa – Toby Shapshak ness

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aug 2014:

http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/what-vinay-did-next-insight-culture-can-we-do-this-3626

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find/follow Vinay:

Launched $30bn @Ethereum. CEO of @mattereum Forbes profile forbes.com/sites/rahulsin… Humanitarian designer myhopeforthe.world

my hope for the world: http://myhopeforthe.world/

re\silience site:

http://re.silience.com/

how to live wiki:

http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/

2026 update – vinay’s new site: https://guptaoption.com/

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book links to pdf

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Vinay Gupta (@leashless)
7/20/14 4:43 AM
You don’t need much of a resource base: £1m would do it, if it was in a place with cheap land and no building codes. nature.com/nature/journal…

So to find time for our kind of science, we had to dump a few shibboleths. For instance, we never bother to ‘publish’: we just post our findings on weblogs, and if they get a lot of links, hey, we’re the Most Frequently Cited. Tenure? Who needs that? Never heard of it! Doctorates, degrees, defending a thesis — don’t know, don’t need ’em, can’t even be bothered!

There’s no money and no banking here. Instead, every object is tracked by RFID tags and subjected to a bioenergetic, cost–benefit, eBay-style arbitrage by repurposed stock-market buy–sell software agents. In practice, this means that when you need something new, you just pile up the things you don’t want by your doorway until somebody shows up and gives you the thing you do want. Economists who visit here just flee screaming — but come on, was economics ever really a ‘science’? We’re with Rutherford: it’s physics or it’s stamp collecting!

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15 min on bitcoin politics nov 2013:

Hexayurt Project at the Bitcoin Expo, London

http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/other/my-bitcoin-expo-london-talk-nov-2013-with-transcript-3539

counter economics isn’t going to take care of climate/agriculture

it’s not just currency, it’s not just freedom, it’s survival

open hardware housing system – for emergency housing – 1st built at burning man

3 min version apr 2014:

[Bitcoin] Cannot be divorced from pre-existing political theory

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Vinay on london real (Brian Rose) feb 2014:

Resilience Guru

14 min – making mechanisms for getting people out of major situations/crises

critical infrastructure – aka: if it goes away people die

what could you die from: too hot/cold, hunger/thirst, injury, illness

19 min – fear govt invokes to make them seem necessary

35 min – once the refugee camps are wired – they no longer are lost stray humans – self-organizing.. only currency that will allow that is bitcoin

perhaps bitcoin will turn out to be the myspace of digital currency – bitcoin’s enemy is not the state, bitcoin’s enemy is its successors

you literally buy into the currency

i think in 30 yrs bitcoin will be gone or dead.. perhaps cryptocurrency

bitcoin as the poor man’s swiss frank – for people that are unserved by the state/system – bitcoin is like open source currency

43 min – i’m not sure that just changing who the oligarchy is – is going to solve the world problems – ie: early adopters to bitcoin

45 min – war is expensive – once you burn it – it’s gone..

46 min – nano materials – weighs/costs nothing – string – fabrics

47 min – what keeps us from this vision of everyone taken care of – there’s always a prey animal – if you want to have a system that works – it has to be one where weak can take from strong – ton of room in basic income – govt writes everyone a check for 20000 a year. close all the social programs (health, ed)  if you’re going to have a govt that does redistribution it’s best it does nothing else

patri friedman – let’s start some new countries and see if it works

51 min – liquid law – 12 votes

if you make 35000 you’re part of the 1% globally, if you make 2 mill in the us

70% of millionaires in america are farmers – enormous amt of land

53 min – can we make 10 billion of these.. if you can’t make 10 billion – it’s not going to work for everybody

56 min – we can do this for everybody – dollar a day income – as long as it’s not distorted by the state

wikipedia – 5 mill dollar a year – 30000 volunteers

commons based peer production – price is a useless single pieces of data in a super rich high bandwidth environment

58 min – anarchist volunteerism – ie: wikipedia – get more out of it than you put into it..

70% of phone is in open source market – so it’s not going away – so on edge – no longer in markets

vote once every 4 years… edge makers are practically instant

money is not a very efficient instrument for changing the world any more..

powerfuls are frequently now – no longer the rich

1:04 – stacktivism

1:10 – best advice – just sit – weight training for the mind – the ability to pay attention to what you want to pay attention to and not anything else

1:20 – it’s about the journey – peace is the accelerator

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hexayurt project:

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oct 2014:

https://edgeryders.eu/blog/other-peoples-utopias

But I am still left with a core question: can any political ideology we have face down the twin terrible threats of climate change and uncontrolled technological innovation?

yes – but for it to last – ie: instigating utopia everyday – money needs to become irrelevant. no?

We may have to innovate in ideology faster to fix our real problems. Any idea how we could start?

indeed. model another way.

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nov 2014 – on bitcoin:

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/18000/bitcoin-is-teaching-realism-to-libertarians-an-interview-with-old-school-cypherpunk-vinay-gupta/

Libertarianism simply does not prevent the establishment of monopolies, cartels, or power-law distributions of wealth. Never has, never will. Libertarians needed to see that happen in order to understand that their ideology is actually not going to protect them against centralized power.

Now they will need to decide: did they want libertarianism, where property is used to divide everything? Or did they want anarchy, where it’s our inherent human nature that gives us freedom, not our property rights.

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dec 2014 – tweeting to Kevin for his input on this:

http://www.caseyresearch.com/cdd/the-hundreds-thomas-jeffersons-forgotten-plan-for-restoring-a-failed-republ

thinking.. like.

not so sure of the number. not keen on the school bldg.

imagining more like 1000 or 70000. sliding. per need/have ness. perhaps the 100 is the (channing) neighborhood size. 5ish mayors ish oversee resources (rather than money) – via some social mapping ness. via daily app/chip self-talk (data).

so self-talk as data for stigmergical society ness.

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Neil Gershenfeld to Blair Evans – building tiny houses

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dec 2014:

CoinScrum and Proof of Work: Tools for the Future

black sky thinking – things that may never happen – but probably will

post-state foreign policy by internet protocol – (internet – only thing you have in non-state that has durability)

housing is the last truly inefficient global industry..

1-2000 hexyurt at burning man

bitcoin (audience), wikipedia, linux – have actually changed things up

libertarian politics… even if you sort out concentration of power.. economic basis is driven by slavery

if we had a country that had the same dynamics of the whole world.. it would be like n korea… (not america) – we have a distorted model of this… 1% 35000/yr – a super elite group looking out at the world.. other 98% looking at us – how did you get that money – the answer is colonialism..

not sure moving up the pyramid is going to help… ie: still have climate mess, et al…

crypto community collectively actually has power to change world in a real way..  to actually get leverage on the real problems.. (global poverty.. global warming..)

irrelevant even if it succeeds is a really bad category

the lever is – what is going to happen to the world in the next 10 yrs.. is roughly what would have happened to 13th cent europe if everyone would have been handed a smartphone

now – 2 bill internet users – vast majority – rich and white

10 yrs from no – 5-6 bill users – dirt poor brown & black people

talking to each other in languages we don’t even know the names of..

mozilla phone – $40 with entire interface built in javascript – battery life incredible, great browser… anybody can afford one.. (?)

central bank of the internet thing

enormous reservoir of untapped power – if you are being astonishingly useful to 3 bill poor people very hard to turn you off

the poor are not going to remain stuck in position we think they will remain in

solar panels, mesh networking …sawyer filter – little widget- $20 – purify 100000 gallons of water   can coke size – $100 – 1 mill gallons

clean water is now a soluble problem

set collectively – 1st world levels of infrastructure any village anywhere in the world… doable – absolutely game changing..

1st hard question – who wants 3 bill clients with average of $1000/yr.. if you have deeply automated systems.. doable –  crypto community as a whole is almost certainly going to wind up owning the namespace for the very poor – i think you need crypto and fb can’t play it

what if no money?

going to see multiple simultaneous markets.. good news for everybody – not a fight to the finish

makerfox – local stuff – what to sell what to buy – everybody gets what they want – network barter

what about just what i need what i have..

ian greg’s ricardo stuff – want to work together at village level but trust each other enough to share a bank account..

political control – the closer to the center of the wheel – the more power you have.. stacktivism – understanding how the ownership infrastructure defines political power

18 min – this i think is the real frontier of freedom: villagers that are food self sufficient – with a (shocking bout?) of tech – using decentralized service.. because off the grid, autonomous, outright ownership of their land, and very substantially politically free.. so expensive to police them..

policy – if we’re going to build platforms.. for 3 billion. – create something that looks like sovereignty but has no center.

pick least evil people to alliance with..

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move forward when players from old and new work together.. so who of the existing powers are our friends? right now – basically nobody.. we have to find incumbents to protect us

q&a:

how to make this new civilization civil..  nothing we can do to make this civil… i don’t think

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is poverty actually soluble…  i think we’ve misunderstood how to understand how to measure poverty.  infant mortality and life of life.. ie: start finding areas of glasgow similar to areas of congo. once you frame poverty in those terms rather than cash flow..  you’ve got better representation of people that are self-sufficient on their own land when cash terms are very poor but in life span doing quite well. (ie: karawa – they’ve broken the idea that you need cash flow) once you decouple the idea of income from poverty.. you get much more political freedom to design nuanced and solvent problems…a language problem .. need to decouple these concepts and start talking about excess mortality rather than deficient cash flow

poverty

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Vinay audio at transmediale (jan 2015) on ethereum:

http://files.howtolivewiki.com/Transmediale_Radio_Vinay_Gupta_Blockchains_Ethereum.MP3

black swan – 30 nice cryptographers in a room – the social dynamics to hold it together..

smart team, good ideas, adequate budget

might end up w/15/20% of people using internet… not some kind of messianic/political movement bitcoin was

take (policing out) the slack in the system – that is used by the powerful

(all related to using/assuming money..?)

taking out un-useful middlemen

ie: camera that raises money for itself

code lawyers… read code.. then signs contract to cover (insurance) you if code breaks down

blockchain cameras for proof – ie: that didn’t get taken to my location, hotel room didn’t open, etc – freelance inspector  – for refunds..

enough social consciousness from the growing transparency.. that the good of tech use will overcome the bad

march 21 – 2015 launch

poverty level – because don’t have institutional weight.. so this oversteps that..

cell phones arrive in the villages with blockchain programs on them…

we have to decide how much more we are going to take.. if the answer is much more – this tech is going to be very bad for us.. but if we decide to take charge…

one full node per village – rather than per phone company (keeping on phone is best.. but having to keep it light)

ibm has taken a fork of ethereum – hacked with bitcoin – called – adapt..

we could have a system perfectly safe.. that would be also perfectly powerful (govt)… i don’t think we want that.. (the need for safe-ness is more our corrupt system)

we are not interested in picking up where bitcoin left off

blockchain has gotten off to a start – of political theme.. i’m thinking we want more of a mixed theme… some decentralized some centralized..

culturally important rather than financially valuable

culturally important rather than financially valuable

if you want to help – there’s a bug finding bounty

we need to keep expanding/broadening the perspective.. until we’ve got global use

i’m all for crazy social dislocation

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https://storify.com/skinnyill/a-long-meditation

a string of tweets by Vinay – on living/modeling/being a nother way..

so – what if the stacktivism ness is more like the vest ness..??

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april 2015 – blockchains, databases, reification: are bottom up standards possible?:

 12 min – blockchain is a database that works like a network, data rather than document, network rather than centralized

13 min – right now – organization stalled because databases can’t talk to each other

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.@jonmatonis If you come from a culture that doesn’t know how to carry people while they learn, society becomes dominated by ignorance

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/597136815661948928

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may 2015 – Ilaria Rocchi and Vinay Gupta discuss the Ethereum Project and theories of political change

8 min – on explanations of blockchains being wrong.. and dangerously so

11 min – 7 layers our from the convo we keep having

14min – build temp cities.. – temp countries… (ie for refugees)… if we do.. we need to do things like ..

paperwork? credential.. et al … w/o passport… money..

refugee ness

then have – 10’s of millions of highly educated

17 min – name resolution – so that we don’t have to go through un et al… the possibility to push the nation state back out of the internet… restore we the people..

18 min – a self-governing library

19 min – a global regulated commons for the virtual – the things that aren’t basically safe… absolute minimum.. censorship free communication system

20 min – on rojava – and a continuum of revolution

rojava

23 min – on naropa uni, gpg, ..

24 min – my hope – that ethereum stays in creative realm and out of political realm … ie: ethereum getting passports to refugees… give them identities that no one else will..; re-credential dr’s; 2nd hand cameras living on block chain – so pools of used properties, smart property; …

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32 min – this is going to scare anyone who makes their living out of oppression or advertising

33 min – explaining blockchain

42 min – on mobile phone banking

Vinay – can we go w/o money..?

47 min – on conversations/debates we’re having now.. about internet.. are tiny.. real challenges are all around us.. my hope is to create this free environment

49 min – on web more for pdf than for gold exchange..

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50 min – on the mis-estimation of publics readiness for global/revolutionary change… we can be a new pillar – w/o tearing down other structures.

rather than against ness… a going forward ness

52 min – radical change: let’s go build a city on mars; taking care of business: creating alternative structure

56 min – on why we (the people) aren’t changing.. – too comfortable.. govt ignoring global warming.. but has been ignoring poverty even more

57 min – until people of world decide they want a better world.. a shift in fundamental public awareness (not ed, what’s in hearts) … the world will continue to be awful… my goal is winning what we have with the consciousness we have

perhaps we need a placebo type jumpstart.. for the 99

58 min – so ethereum as web 3.0 to help this happen – make world a better place.. and pays its bills…

1:00 – it’s our business model not our tech that is the core competitive asset… an internet that works for us

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So here’s why this “capitalism is colonialism” thing matters: nobody’s seriously talking about a fair world for everybody these days.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/599711284943261696

And when you start talking about “nobody dies of poverty” you’re talking about changing the evolutionary pressures on humanity radically.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/599712512058204160

“I cannot have kids because my kids will grow up homeless” is bad. “I cannot have kids because my kids will starve to death” is far worse.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/599712806523514880

Was it Kibera that’s said to be on its fifth generation of people born in “refugee camp” – that’s not a refugee camp, that’s people’s lives.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/599720649251229696

But the political arguments about quality of life and child-rearing in camps I haven’t had quite clear until now. Thank you for listening.

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/599723212965072897

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from Vinay..

Does anybody have a copy of Laziness, Impatience, Hubris my talk at @cbase hexayurt.blip.tv/file/4816876/ I’ve got audio here..

http://files.howtolivewiki.com/laziness_impatience_and_hubris_at_c_base_berlin.mp3

starts about 3 min

7 buildings by 6 guys in 2 days

6 min – example of massive scale of openness.. ie: simple enough they didn’t even need to ask him how to do anything (built at burning man)

8 min – basics are incredibly simple… so idea spreads incredibly quickly..

that’s what we need – for systemic change.. no? simple enough ness

13 min – Bucky optimizing for wrong thing… not min mass… min waste

back to the hubris part – if we’d had this tech in the 1960s the hippies would have won… this is how the freaks take over the earth

18 min – the military loves hexayurts.. (camaflouge ness)

19 min – on squat a bility

23 min – end talk..

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may 2015 – coase’s blockchain

audio:

http://files.howtolivewiki.com/coases_blockchain.mp3

blockchain is simply a database that works like the network – decentralized databases are robust… no edit/delete.. 100% history..no privacy.. no secrecy

2 yrs from now – won’t hear blockchain – will just hear database

so have single structural background/platform

blockchain is for reducing transaction costs – cutting through regulatory overheads/paperwork/bureaucracy

because ethereum is non-profit.. i don’t have to tell investors that it will replace other things.. it can run alongside

slides:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4w3Tams6OYoN2J2ak9FbHIteXVOMmF1Ykx5R0ZWZ05GZEFR/edit

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june 2015 – wales

Transparent Society – Crowdfunding on Block Chains / Ethereum

so much phrased in (already given) frameworks of political power – … the state has no power… problems we face today are outside of state’s ability to address, ie: polio…

2 min – where battle for power results in inefficiency to solve problems..

3 min – an enormous uncharted wasteland.. of stuff nation state are unable to solve.. because wrong institutional vehicle… 

7 min – wisdom legitimacy on decisions rather than purchases/possessions

8 min – when we realize the random ness of the process of vc for startups ness… ie: y combinator..

10 min – what if what we need is to fund a random selection…i think we can solve that with blockchain technology…

17 min – on blockchain with no centralized schema.. database tech built from ground up.. and all organizations share workspace… wind up with easy flow of tasks/structures between organizations.. because finally have database tech which is network native.. finally have tech to get over B hump… may take as little as 5 yrs because people are desperate..

so why can’t www be that? why blockchain? is blockchain more than hypertext?

19 min – smart contract.. making possible for my phone company to directly communicate with my bank… even more true with mortgages… ie: transferring ownership… gets rid of middle man

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wouldn’t no money get rid of middle man..?

22 min – blockchain – reorganization necessary to re plumb the world…

equity crowdfunding.. reg crowdfunding.. put money in nothing comes back. equity crowdfunding.. put money in money comes back

so all based on money.. no?

26 min – owners and users the same people… and run by people picked by people/users

27 min – venture capital ransom ness (ie: ability for vc’s to pick is extremely low) not effected by crowd doing the work… ie: we’re already shoveling money into a furnace.. i think we should let more people shove more money into the furnace..

30 min – solution is tons and tons of experimenters… and only block to that .. funding and regulation…

indeed.. 7 billion doing their thing.. but perhaps .. not getting money to each other.. but using self-talk to get people to each other.. no?

31 min – on getting away from policing.. on the agreement that no one can make good decisions… so, ie: not a loss at letting everyone decide.. (paraphrase)… i think we’ll discover that equity crowdfunding and vc funding would get the same return…

33 min – if we don’t have a metric for equity crowdfunding.. going to be hard to sell it’s (the same)..

but again – what if that’s (money) the institution/tech that is getting in the way.. yes.. use blockchain/hypertext ness.. but not for distributing/measuring moneys…

36 min – on our inborn love for new tech that is useful…

37 min – the people want flying cars.. the problem is the flying car guy needs to go get funds to start.. regulation/B in the way… we need recreational/tech investment.. to deliver us this flying car utopia that we’re all entitled to… wildly exuberant crowd funding.. blockchain

38 min – ethereum is not equity crowdfund… but the next round of it .. could be

41 min – suggesting … tons of money if we get equity crowdfunding to support ie: tinkerers..

42 min – responsibly managing investment is not a way to get where we want to go… to get real progress.. – (again – graeber’s quote above…) – basically only means we have for solving problems we have… ie: govts too small minded to face big/systemic problems we have.. just can’t talk about stuff like that and get elected..

44 min – reference of red cross.. 6 houses for haiti… with so much money

45 min – blockchain as vehicle to blow innovation up at a local level

46 min – ie: what would have happened if we would have equity crowdfunded fb

47 min – left: people who work should own; right: people who own should own….post-industrial society finds no meaning in that…

49 min – now – only very rich get access… future – equitable access. very important to not sell this inside a left/right mindset… it makes sense from both left and right.. but doesn’t make sense in authoritarian..

50 min – strategy that makes sense along a political axis that has not yet been defined, ie: post-industrial.. makes sense in both left/right mindset ..but not in authoritarian-

57 min – soundhound

http://www.soundhound.com/

1:00 – funding is free speech… critical ways of regulating equity crowdfunding

1:01 – institutions – on the 4 yr election cycle… speed from 200 yrs ago… if you told jefferson that when we had airplanes we’d still use same electoral system…

1:02 – people doing own allocations…

yes to that… do we need money for that?

1:03 – dismantle need for nation state before its collapse… get all simultaneously running… ie: greece…

put all systems together: democratization of society and massive acceleration of technological change… who could refuse that.. if we get that right… we get the open future everyone is wanting

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singapore, july 2015

money is whatever people use and call money

value can only be socially constructed..

value ness

15 min – the worst thing about bitcoin.. is it’s just a currency… doesn’t provide facilities for building other things, like ie: auctions, futures contracts, derivatives, … so not secure.. very hackable…as long as system has a border….

17 min – part of theory behind ethereum.. is to build a secure system

ethereum is a blockchain that holds software…

20 min – the way you talk to ethereum is through websites

24 min proof of work – pledge i’ve done the right thing; proof of state – pledge you will do right thing

37 min – problem – blockchains tend to be permanent storage of past… so hard to chance quickly

38 min – if ethereum works – it won’t be last step.. will keep morphing until – until something has same durability as ??? visa ???

that’s the goal of ethereum..?

43 min – on identity

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47 min – ethereum is the one network

describes two loop theory with proof of state continuing and proof of work dropping off.. after say a year of comparing them.. alongside

55 min – on having to store – cost of storage

57 min – talking about ethereum is like talking about the web in 93 – the smell of the edge…

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.@jzellis This is precisely the power of his work: “this might indeed be the best of all *possible* worlds.” We must address that with ideas

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/629089921471545344

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aug 2015 – podcast interview .. BLOCKCHAIN, SMART CONTRACTS AND THE SOCIAL NEED FOR JOBS.

http://perfectpath.co.uk/2015/08/05/podcast-with-leashless-blockchain-smart-contracts-and-the-social-need-for-jobs/

(great links on this link – from Vinay’s talk …ie: 4 min – Augur – Predictive Market

6 min – on city of london replaced by code/robots

white collar automation – feynman talks about this.. ie: space shuttle report

7 min – the ability of human culture to take enormous tech benefit and maintain the same hierarchies we currently have is enormous.. we keep abusing the tech in such a way that you wind up with the same stratification rather than having these enormous leaps of efficiency

10 min – 30 yrs for things to shift… that inertia is social inertia.. we could do things in radical ways.. but the decision makers unramp tech that preserve them and fight against potentially disruptive.. right up to selling out present for future.. and that’s where it disrupts/unfolds..

12 min – so we get people in the city doing all this paperwork…

on b ness – expanding since computers..

15 min – boys from the blackstuff

17 min – on nerd reich

19 min – on nerds being merciless (from their oppression)

20 min – wise life work strategy –

adaptation: no strategy to combat negative equity… mortgages. govt sacrificing huge parts of function of economy to keep house prices high.. london.. 3 stories high.. ny.. 5 stories high.. but we won’t pass building codes for that to happen… ie: housing problem being broken is what’s making the top richer

john draper – begging for medical expenses… after created/fixed things.. forgotten.. ie: howard, a hole list of my heroes have wound up in that position … (so ethereum)

when: now

29 min – on ethereum like peer inc sharing… ie: so wikipedia-style shared space, but one that can’t be changed.. not being changeable as important…

?

36 min – get all computers together and can begin to provide services that used to be only the states could do

all good – for interoperability ness.. but perhaps we question those services as well.. (taking advantage of tech leaps we could be taking advantage of).. ie: perhaps make all this paperwork irrelevant..  monetary, people documentation, et al

39 min – Lloyd: it is when… and also..  i don’t know why i’m so attached to understanding what we will do instead.. i suppose because i’ve found myself on the edge of this.. ie; i’ve given up on b..

a nother way ness – whatever we want… radical econ if we must keep track

40 min – in that setting.. the stuff that you’ve given up on is basically the stuff you’ve already done.. if you’re wrong you can change your mind.. if you’re too early you’re stooped.. that most of my life is translating human geniuses to human speech… that’s new..

42 min – on google’s vast autistic employees… different kinds of people are now turning out to be the assets.. shift in who is important.. not just in what’s being done..

again – ugh.. for what..? ie: stock.. pr…?

agree with – all people.. but let’s go beyond..

43 min – i will carry a question for 5-6 yrs.. then conclusion is simple. but to get space to do that kind of thinking.. i’ve had to get out of economic activity.. so now back in i have to ask.. am i doing innovation.. or am i handle turning.. i’m certainly part of process that is doing world innovation.. but am i innovating inside of that..

hmm. luxury ness for all. let’s do this first. graeber min/max law.

45 min – how long people remain rational before system goes wang.. on how much energy those people have fighting within system.. ie: london taxi – inside i completely relax. i don’t do the 10 min last walk thing.. because 10 min of not worrying about anything changes how i do things.. increases rather than reduces stress.. (not so in georgia) – london taxi drivers have to do the knowledge, uni degree, to memo the streets.. perfect example of industry that is remaining irrational.. and still have plenty of fight in them… but in last 6 mos i’ve had to start correcting cab drivers.. using my phone.. so gradually knowledge base being eroded..

47 min – the industry remaining irrational in face of incoming tech…

phase 1 – pretending not happening; phase 2 – losing jobs

49 min – on wanting to help out taxi cabs.. because want to keep them..

50 min – crossbow capable going through armor – socially disruptive.. so being a knight not so great anymore

53 min – on smart contracts – i first heard of in 1999 – ignored bitcoin – just a currency – asked myself – am i the kind of person that buys my money then sells to greater fools. so no. and then ethereum.. once you have smart contracts you can build better structures

57 min – enormous complexity/infrastructure.. scripted on top  – weinberger‘s.. scripting is power.. clue train et al

1:02 – mapping these gradients of tech – next big job. the psych and political position.. where if ie: your tech is controlled by others.. what your limits of stepping in are..

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[i think my fav talk/convo of his to date..  love his focus on what matters..]

https://www.etherreview.info/2016/07/08/234/

20 min – i need a job.. i make way into ether game.. because…i’ve spent 15 yrs working for free on nastiest problems i could find… i can’t get paid for doing the work i’m actually here to do.. because it’s so terrifying that nobody will basically put money behind getting a clearer picture of it..

i knew … currency wasn’t enough.. not anything in terms of social change… i come here.. because i need to put a little security behind myself…

21 min – i take risk of global financial collapse seriously enough.. that i climb the ladder…

this is not cynical.. it’s happy and cheerful compared to how the developing world works... i can tell you how africa is broken.. but you’ll never look at your own people in same way again..

23 min – regulators job is to protect the people.. who are at risk from.. scammy bullshit marketing

if you startle people in just the right ways.. they give you their money..

25 min – against that context.. where we understand fully how that system really works.. have to ask ourselves…. are we diff from the reg econ.. if we’ve got same kind of mass psychology.. is it really for us to claim we’re above it..

26 min – ethereum is an attempt to use the most powerful force in universe to govern affairs.. and that force is mathematics.. this is a big deal

as long as we’re governing what matters.. ie: not measuring transactions..

crypto approach to this is retarded..

28 min – we should partner w/un to fight climate change.. ie: take everyone emitting carbon.. and force them to publish results on a blockchain.. push tokens they are generating on their customers.. tag them for price.. attached to people personally… seriously show who is emitting carbon and what it’s used for.. give much clearer picture of global situation..

29 min – is there really a global drought.. v: yeah

30 min – ledger use: 1\ tracking negative externalities.. 2\ global governance.. opinion polling.. model of what people want..

oy.. what if we can get away from pollingness..

ability to make structural change if can figure out what global public opinion is..

? – perhaps rather.. focus on basic human needs – ie: a and a

31 mi – what i’m recommending is not that this is what we ought to be building… but the idea that the highest manifestation of block chain as an idea is to generate a currency and smart contracts as a hyper efficient form of late stage of capitalism.. clearly we are thinking about this in a very rigid/static 2 d way..

31 min – we have vastly bigger problems than the inability of people to parade trade between each other…we’ve got 20 million people that will die this year.. of poverty… et al.. and we are wrecking the hell out of the ecosystem…

33 min – problem.. right now biggest entity we have to solve is un.. and it’s a trade assoc for nation states..  if in a democracy.. have to pick leadership and send to un.. if not in democracy (which is enormous % of humans) no say.. so.. hard to get world to pull together.. problem 1… problem 2.. centuries of massive abuse because of colonialism…

34 min – so.. inside this context.. imagine if we had a way of getting ordinary human beings direct voice on big issues.. that would have enormous tendency..

ay.. – doesn’t it then mean we are voting on spinach or rock ness…

we could get direct political pressure… from masses living in worst states.. w/o having to go thru filter

40 min – if crypto anarchy w/o property rights.. all believe property is soul of anarchy.. which is of course nonsense.. no such thing as anarcho capitalism..

can re conceive crypto project as aligned with human survival rather than human greed..

seems too big – arthur – there’s no other game worth playing.. so play that game.. if we are not here to save the world.. why get out of bed in the morning..– vinay..

43 min – w/o some fundamental challenge toward lifestyle change..

a nother way

44 min – system of world is a very bad thing.. highest purpose for blockchain is to make system 1\ visible 2\ repairable…. use blockchain for tracking transactions in order to track resource flow

hosting-life-bits

45 min – killer app fro crypto ledgers is global democracy.. a way to register opinions.. currencies are tiny little things.. hardly worth discussing.. not even wrong .. insignificant even if correct.. really hard problems.. are collective action problems..

47 min – capitalism: price signaling  communism: means of production.. bring together to bare on final price of a good – arthur  yes – vinay

oy – no –

this is not best use of these techs… just my model.. someone else could come along.. vastly bigger dreams than this is about currency/contracts..

ah yes..

49 min – what we need to emphasize.. this is day one of a completely new phase.. if we take first basic screw up as reason to close it all down… has to be bigger vision.. can’t reflect around anarcho capitalist theory

50 min – huge alternatives.. that only barely intersect with my version…

51 min – we have to grow out of the narrative.. we have to start weaving in potential of blockchain..  ie: syncing wikipedia to blockchains.. all uses are relatively easy technically.. we’re just not focusing on that.. because everyone is focusing on liberatarian politics and transaction processing

we need bigger dreams..

we need a much louder much more complicated ecosystem… we have to also look at role foundation has of narrow/technical.. to do broad based outreach…

deep/simple/open enough

56 min – i talked about blockchains and global governance.. because i wanted those people to come into our space.. and ask about more… we’re going to come up with problem of everyone thinking it’s a financial tech.. it’s not a financial tech.. it’s a rebirth of the internet

57 min – i really think we need provably fair internet data... services (ie: dating) aren’t neutral…  adverse incentive..

self-talk as data.. facilitated by non judgmental tech

58 min – ok cupid – 10% of births

1:00 – matching you with people for you rather than profit for company...

find your people.. everyday.. as the day..

if we fixed that problem.. ordinary people would see bc’s mean fairness…

1:02 – once you get good enough tools.. you get fundamental changes in people’s behavior..

imagine if design to give space/time for interpretive labor – rev in rev..rev of everyday life

1:03 – perpetual disorientation very vulnerable to exploitation by people who have more insight into situation than they do

1:03 – in a position to abuse insight.. blockchains may give us a way to prevent abuses from happening – arthur

1:04 – actionable – we need to think much bigger in much more diverse ways… we need to start making blockchain clearly visible to people to help big problems of world in big ways.. ie: how to track timber.. refugees.. providence of meats..

what if .. how to wake people up.. so we can have 7 billion making soul ful decisions everyday.. consenting with guts rather than with all the other people in a mob…

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convo with Jon Husband on wirearchy and blockchain june 2016

@jonhusband

#orgdna .. #wirearchy 10 years from now, after blockchain stretches its legs ? youtube.com/watch?v=9TzB9q…

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on politics

must circumvent politics (https://t.co/jPPfVmlvwH) wherever possible, as per @leashless. if want different future, build alt models. [16/?]

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/_jordan_bates/status/759906683107803136

Transcending Politics – 17 min video interview 2014 – 

simpler systems can provide all our basic needs…

emergence

possible to go w/o heavily entrenched..external governance..

politics are about allocating scarcity.. if take scarcity out .. doesn’t matter who’s in charge…

if get rid of scarcity.. politics less important..

9 min – everyone working on l-r system of politics.. massively out of step

once look at post industrial econ’s work – ie: keven carson’s, yoha benkler.. entire political movement landscape is littered with things one/two generation behind…. control of assets always about assets.. when econ changes shape.. if politics don’t catch up.. keep turning… applying force.. just strip head of problem.. can’t get real leverage on problems.. generations behind econ so politics don’t grip

deep/simple/open enough

the biggest block we have is thinking poverty is static..

14 min – first priority must be – show must go on

most problems solve if go to solar rather than coal

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aug 2016

a thesis: hexayurt guy capital partners?

https://hexayurt-capital.typeform.com/to/lV91Mv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjEst4t4ntg

2 min – how we allocate risk and capital to generate forward motion..

started w rich old geeks funding young geeks to go out and invent the future.. tech expert to tech expert… ie: semiconductor..

now.. generally vs understands money but not tech..

environment has sped up w/o funding… resulting in large misallocation of funds..

6 min – right now most perceptions are that startups are companies… i don’t think that’s what they are.. i think startups are actually factories for producing financial instruments..

7 min – in drug world.. leads.. then 10x money to turn into.. in each stage.. so completely diff kinds of entities in each phase..

9 min – paul graham.. so can’t predict..so have to take a ton of risks… many invest in too low level of risk.. not investing enough in crazy.. only thing worth doing is 1000 to 1 returns..

13 min – to build something based on idea .. that we’re going after 1000 to 1 shots…

15 min – the idea of a world that is governed by math rather than force.. is appealing.. and i think is going to turn out to be a good bet… but getting capital into the system is quite difficult..

16 min – to get into that space (1000 to 1) .. you need to be investing in things that don’t only seem mysterious to you.. but that actually seem physically impossible..ethically unreasonable.. or require patterns of human behavior you don’t believe in

so have to get into putting money into ideas you don’t believe in.. really looking for is things that 25 yr olds think.. not sure i can use that.. but really interesting…

17 min – notion of looking for edge..

19 min – critical access of action.. risk to expertise/legalities.. ie: phases of a rocket.. little risks become big risks.. right now those gateways are extremely complicated

20 min – we have clear model of phases going from irrational dreams about possible futures thru to the hard core regulatory grind of bolting things directly to existing superstructure..

why existing superstructure..?

21 min – if you don’t have that kind of crazy.. not going to dedicate life to it..

rocket.. assumed to be disposable.. thrown away at the end..

22 min – alienation/trap – because now rich and friends all poor.. or.. in high burn lifestyle.. w no chance of getting off wheel…

thinking of money as scarce.. there’s an astonishing amount of wealth on planet.. so.. not that there isn’t lot of money

23 min – on other hand precise set of skills necessary to master diverse power of tech and pull into coherent vision of future.. which then you can attempt.. then slide in front of culture of an option to divert from path that it would be on if you didn’t exist.. a pretty rare set of skills..

pulling entrepreneurs out of companies before completely destroyed.. better than treating entrepreneur as one shot rocket…

24 min – same error as in end of care life expense… ie: often unconscious for entire period.. take off respirator off early enough save fundamental assets.. ie: people’s willing ness to work…

25 min – rather than burn crash people.. soft land them.. what if started looking .. at pulling this stuff out a little bit earlier than burn out… perhaps more would go on (refreshed) to a 2nd/3rd try

26 min – so how to align interests..?

chip ness

27 min – how to make it feasible for people to pull the plug.. have to make it ok for people to think of themselves as important enough.. that crashing the entire show is not the future..  ie: people with skills at center rather than people with money…

28 min – in this kind of format.. critical.. horizontalize risk.. risk pool.. ability to cross invest.. better for network as whole if everybody swings as hard as they can and takes as big risk as they can..

29 min – founders oppression – because instruments around the system are not appropriately valuing human capital… fixable problem..

mech simple enough

30 min – what if did a vc ..is a matching engine.. bunch of kids with enormously erratic visions.. get out in advance of human cultural change..

32 min – investing in things that could become a norm.. a verb.. building new verbs into human language.. way of thinking about things that plug into people’s lives.. mass psych of choice.. not deterministic..

33 min – notion.. of where in landscape any kind of edge.. interface between techs that are getting very little internal investment..

34 min – even if duct taping diff’s together.. better leverage.. if you keep it current.. highly compound.. could prototype today.. and then come back in 5 yrs.. every single one of components would have improved.. the path between .. rickety present and future perfect.. is paved with people’s money.. possibility operating too near future..leverage.. from using many techs that are continually improving..

37 min –

1\ conservation of entrepreneur – scarce resource.. right now .. plane/person expendable.. mission isn’t.. but if many many many test planes.. easy to see.. landing plane is best thing.. second best eject team while still in air

2\ compound value.. where in ecosystem enough space.. risk perspecting in an area..

39 min – my journey.. has involved a lot of screwing up.. starting in 93… 90s no money.. due diligence.. never really found an angle on the thing i believed in.. i found inside of govt/energy/etc policy.. but never something in business.. slowing this vc thing has become that for me.. to fund young dreamers and drag us along with them.. how to allocate capital to things that will really make a diff.. we have to innovate on both ends.. low end.. until mass collab for millions to innovations.. hopes is high end inside developed world for those who already have assets.. then scale down to low end..

42 min – want to see best of people doing best of work with best support possible.. ie: robin chase’s peers inc.. assets into ubiquitous platforms.. but i really want to see is things that are shocking and amazing.. if we can accelerate progress at bleeding edge.. might get acceleration it takes to address things like climate… right now.. trying to speed up.. with expectation that that speed is part of tool kit to innovate in other areas…

44 min – looking for very high risk.. super clear.. high potential.. build these things out.. if doesn’t work out.. still part of movement..

a nother way..

45 min – if interested.. hexayurt.com/capital… ideas.. how to approach..

46 min – in may case.. didn’t understand what i was doing.. ie: a successful company..  because of speed up..only thing we can hope is to build machinery that gets people through their lives.. all we’re doing is enabling people to get things done.. rather than operating inside of older paradigm

hosting-life-bits

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infrastructure for 7 billion world

https://cointelegraph.com/news/podcast-infrastructure-for-a-seven-billion-world

10 min – focus on/assumption of.. money

11 min – flag dangerous tech.. et al.. on a blockchain.. track use of earth’s natural resources.. ie: transferable energy… global econ w/in environ system..

12 min – there is no way we’re going to build systems that work like that on top of paper currency.. this is what we need blockchains for..

do we need to measure… if people are free.. and don’t need to be ‘kept in line’..

and.. if we need to ‘keep people in line’.. won’t we end up where we are in another few years..

15 min – bitcoin/ethereum.. as fast as mechanical calculator..

what if fast isn’t what we need.. rather.. getting rid of irrelevants.. ie: measuring .. in order to keep in line.. keep fair.. et al..

16 min – on use of – currency – as verbiage.. becoming irrelevant..

18 min – tech for blockchain all there since 80s.. just not practical ways to do it yet.. didn’t have algos.. didn’t have mindset..

19 min – if we’d don’t his in 91.. we’re always going to take tech emerging at same time.. and combine.. all people at tech frontier wants to join to other in tech frontier.. cultures of tech… nobody wants to connect ie: blockchain w old tech

20 min – semantic level.. one ie: social skills in ed.. easy to measure math.. hard to measure social skills.. so no funding to make it better.. so illegible.. can’t represent objectively.. … seeing like a state

25 min – 1/ is store open (solvable) – semantic  2/ how to enumerate intangibles (probably never going to happen) – legibility

we have to accept we can’t run our society on spreadsheets..

so why enumerate..

30 min – what we are after is an accountable measure that assures bad actors are flagged..

why not get to root of bad acting.. gershenfeld sel

31 min – not knowing who we can trust.. doesn’t go forward unless develop an immune system.. being afraid to call people out.. consensus ness..

entirely a sociological problem..

consensus

we came in in hopes that we could create this trustless systems..

33 min – mythology we had was that because the software was perfect we could not care about the attributes of humans involved... that’s dead..

34 min – we knew real world was encroaching into our utopias..

who’s perfect. .. who’s not ever going to screw things up..

so.. let’s 1\embrace that and 2\ create mech that would diminish screwing up ness as much as possible.. ie: 7 billion people iterating on daily detox

35 min – best minds.. have been.. playing catch up.. right now we don’t look like competent professionals.. we look like a bunch of people incapable of managing crisis that they are stuck in the middle of.. because.. we are..

36 min – how did we get into mess.. lesson 1\ software always has bugs.. so need to design messy human policy for bugs.. or just understand/accept bugs.. now have massive political split about how to solve problem…

talking how to move money in blockchain and how to find bad actors..

what if both (money and bad actors) of those are irrelevant..  man made..

system looks way it does because of bad actors..

?

39 min – we’ve rediscovered why world is way it is the hard way..

what to do from here.. recovering losses from dao – lawsuits.. whole bunch of legal liabilities that have arisen from this.. lucky if don’t have to go through litigation

41 min – if we had built momentum over 4-5 .. we could have built in competence to get through this..

42 min – ethereum.. databases, networks, many computers, one computer.. thing isn’t finished yet.. what thing is will be decided by wider culture.. can’t tell society how thing works..

43 min – now in position where can’t avoid governance problem.. 3 ways…. 3\ courts/governance inside …my money on internal.. ie: contracts.. to binding arbitration..failure to proper contract.. as key failure.. all done by humans..

huge to reading Dave Elder-Vass – causal powers of social structures.. and esp to this idea of compliance.. and esp to voluntary compliance..

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@fluffyponyza

“A smart contract is just a warm fifth-order feeling, deep inside of you.” – @leashless cc @junseth @derosetech

90 min aug 2016 – talks Ethereum, blockchain, and the Future! on Bitcoin Uncensored

2 min – i knew currecny wasn’t enough

5 min – currency doesn’t give you the necessary high order structure you need to achieve political change.. so i looked at bitcoin and just ignored it

6 min – i came out of retirement on crypto to work on smart contract.. defn: a chunk of code that runs outside of control of the centuries of the contract..

all need is admin control over something that matters…

7 min – smart contracts are amazing.. the thing we thought was always going to achieve.. nick sabo’s work on smart contract.. bitcoin not really a currency.. smart contracts not contracts.. not smart..

8 min – hard to understand what it is.. (do you understand them).. well no…. so many defn’s flying around..

9 min – build .. then come up with a name.. who cares what defn of smart contract is.. let’s talk about actual running code.. ie: ethereum..

10 min – guys.. you’re acting as if defn’s matter.. what matters is running code..

language always lags the practice.. the failure to be able to form accurate language around new tech is an indication that you’re working on the cutting edge

11 min – when real change is happening.. extremely difficult to define things…

guys pushing for defn.. and vinay says.. talk about running code

12 min – what does it matter if something is /is not a smart contract..

if you want to do this properly.. what is it you want to understand about smart contracts..

13 min – e rites – since 90s

14 min – in real tech.. practice leads theory..

blockchain is not necessary for smart contracts to be interesting..

15 min – useful sc – democratic governance of shared assets..

guys: where’s your evidence for that.. that’s an extraordinary claim with no

? what questions are these

guys: there’s no science in this space

17 min – you’re expecting to be able to operate inside space with genuine tech change by defining /measuring.. this doesn’t work..

18 min – you’re asking for a defn of something that does not yet exist..

19 min – if you want to think about future.. have to have better conceptual brains..

not going to be defined by your linguistic defn..

emergence ness

20 min – evolving process… things which are genuinely important.. fundamental social transformations are never understood when they are happening..

smart contract .. defined by established practice.. not by a textbook defn..

operational vs denotational semantics.. looking for normative before it becomes normative…

22 min – ethereum comes along implements a smart contract

ignoring bitcoin.. just currency.. not political impact..

hey Vinay.. energy here: graeber model law.. let me bend your ear.. and let’s just do it.. rather than argue/present about it..

27 min – guys: there’s nothing here that is actionable…  vinay: it’s what i do

first time i’ve ever seen you carry on in a crazy convo.. and get so mad

29 min – widespread.. that we’re running out of time.. so what to do about it..

12 nation states

39 min – why do we need political change.. those in charge.. states/corps.. doing very poor jobs at managing existential risks to humanity..

43 min – vc space: humanity has had existential risks by poor govts since nuclear bombs

47 min – markets do not reflect risks.. entirely created by the state..

48 min – guys: are markets efficient  vinay: depending upon externality management

and efficient to what..?

markets exist in regulated spaces.. so if w/o will invent regs

50 min – if possible to manage scheduling problem

51 min – fundamental: full bore cannibalism mode.. treating human beings as expendable..  (guys: by what metric)..

53 min – guys: wealth gap is mattering less than ever … vinay: not interested in gaps

54 min – # one job in america.. driver..

good grief .. who are these guys

55 min – the market has nothing to do with the wealth of individual americans

55 min – guys: when i look out my window.. i see so much order/wealth.. vinay is in detroit.. so he assumes all america is like that..

perhaps have the guys read divide

57 min – spending enormous amount of world’s wealth.. on weapons.. system we have for electing leaders haven’t helped with any of these risks..

58 min – if you think this is a fringe perspective.. you really need to go and do some reading..

59 min – existential risk main thing ever since first nuc.. we got ability to destroy ourselves and have been negotiating around that ever since..  vc: how do you build large scale efficient problem solving apparatus that is capable of dealing with real problems.. state has failed at that..

main threats are bad tech regulation.. rather than ie: russians

1:00 – elon musk: given markets are effective.. existential risks management systems inside market econ.. so.. 100 mill in space ex.. 100 mill tesla.. 100 mill sources..? over 10 yrs enough tractions.. for global co2 missions.. and solve race problems.. (if realize have whole space less interest in gutting neighbors)..

musk: possible to get serious leverage on actual social problems..

1:02 – previous guy.. norman borlaug.. that academia

1:05 – back to vc: we need to build machinery for operating at a global scale

musk has proven that that is possible… (musk is part of vc)

what i have been doing.. working inside industrial complex.. working with strategic planners

1:06 – attempting to ensure long term survival of species..  educate people who have power to make these decisions to do right things..

or..  design so that 7 bill make decisions..  once all of us awake..

1:09 – clear we weren’t going to get what need via govt

1:10 – musk proves.. effective mech inside markets rather than inside state.. to existential risks..

1:11 – i accept that your mind is blown by things you don’t understand..

1:14 – gotten to point.. not going to be able to influence the state.. start looking at market.. worth a shot.. right at time ethereum pops up.. ethereum runs into serious governance problems.. i’m getting itchy feet.. want to build a bunch of stuff in europe.. but vc’s no interest

1:16 – as soon as regulatory around equity crowdfunding is sorted out.. much easier

1:17 – strategy – funding co’s exist inside space.. on fund stuff in center of: blockchaing, ar/vr, robotics, ai

1:18 – we think we’ll get compound growth in that space

not discussing people or money right now

i can’t believe i listened to whole thing.. can’t believe V spent time/energy on that.. good insight.. but buried in 90 min crazy (not good crazy)… i wish i could have had 90 min with vinay instead.

yeah.

1:26 – in future.. need turing complete smart contracts..

1:27 – mining in china

1:28 – mining: an effective solution to the pack theorem.. allows to build something essential able to compensate for speed of light.. need to mine because.. you can’t find provably fair way of ordering transactions.. because of speed of light..

time\ing\ness

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video notes from trip to dubai

dubai as trade hub from 2.5 bill people.. so natural monopoly

5 min – mit workshop on refugee issues

6 min – rep of both dubai and singapore..

7 min – culture changing much more slowly than tech

more slack.. because we can’t see what will unfold.. if these are our future states

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@leashless

.@emusdrinking If Singapore and Dubai could figure out how to tweak legal codes to tolerate software talent? They’d be unstoppable.

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novel mother of hydrogen (my notes) via

@leashless

.@_jordan_bates now read Mother of Hydrogen hexayurt.com/novel for exciting answers to these exciting questions :-)

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thread – nov 2016

@leashless

I am not enjoying seeing the shape and pattern of history. But I’ve gotten to diminishing returns on conscious adaptation. Moving forwards!

Feeling comprehensively re-tooled for this New Future we are facing together. Tough times, big change, iconoclasm. Renegotiate priorities!

I started a journey out of academia and activism towards capitalism because of two things: being broke, and Elon Musk. That is the truth.

In simply had to admit I was wrong. Not 15 years wasted, but much less done than if I’d simply accepted that markets and sacrifice work.

The sacrifice is the hard part: in capitalism the weakest get hurt, but you get Gates Foundation sometimes, and it changes history.

perhaps let’s try more ie: @TheEllenShow

& design as temp placebo..

so it irrelevants itself

a nother way cc @cblack__

Accepting that this approach has better net results that nearly all forms of activism, consciousness raising and small charity was shocking.

I just don’t see a more effective way to work towards the common good than making a lot of money and spending it helping people. That simple

make money. Sacrifice your ideals. Get into the heart of the great mass, and keep your head down.

I just don’t see a more effective way to work towards the common good than making a lot of money and spending it helping people. That simple

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Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:55 AM – 6 Dec 2016 :

I can tell you now exactly why venture capital is the logical end point of my journey through academia and activism in the world now live in (http://twitter.com/leashless/status/806104845275066368?s=17)

I’m not going to spend the day explaining. But I can’t push effectively without that ironclad mental integrity. I need to know my reasons.

self-talk as data/energy

Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:58 AM – 6 Dec 2016 :

I don’t know whether that need for integration is a weakness or strength in this rapid-fire world. I have hope for #deepwork as a language! (http://twitter.com/leashless/status/806105461732868097?s=17)

lanier beyond words law

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Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 12:25 PM – 25 Jan 2017 :

The Internet of Agreements is new Hexayurt Capital concept work on blockchain fusion @I_of_A https://t.co/112UpamhEo #IofA whitepaper soon (http://twitter.com/leashless/status/824337375501422600?s=17)

map for law – machine reps of the law.. if we can’t figure out what is legal we can’t proceed to alternate

what if we just want/need to start over from scratch..? ie: too much b to sift through.. let’s start with just 2 needs.. deep enough.. (back human nature via hari rat park law).. as constitution (if we must)

in the real world logistics is everything

blockchain is for.. moving physical stuff..

? maybe it’s for connecting us.. facilitating our whimsy..

info in form of payment.. order.. insurance.. credentials..

oy

http://hexayurt.capital/

A new venture capital project, focused on complex technologies and taking better care of founders

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Caspar Addyman (@czzpr) tweeted at 4:49 AM – 7 Mar 2017 :

tl;dr “My prediction: rough period, brief golden age, then further technological mayhem that threatens our survival as a species” https://t.co/mosWd0SNTG (http://twitter.com/czzpr/status/839080672241332225?s=17)

What do you think we’re currently getting wrong in our relationship with time?

..people aren’t thinking about lives in way that corresponds to bio reality..we created something called “Childhood” and people called “Teenagers”..we have people in ed till they’re 25… we basically shifted point of maturity back 15 years and then wonder why teenagers are all insane.

on rest of interview.. please don’t get lost vinay

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Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 3:42 PM on Mon, May 22, 2017:
If you’ve started following me because of #Ethereum stuff, you may like this site about my earlier humanitarian work https://t.co/vFb6POkhEq
(https://twitter.com/leashless/status/866771371203989507?s=03)

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Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:54 PM on Sun, Jul 02, 2017:
The objective is to make enough money running a piece of global infrastructure that the overflow can start a project to protect 1/4bn people
(https://twitter.com/leashless/status/881647349478699008?s=03)

rather.. enough money for enough people to not think about money.. to model a nother way (sans money) for 7 bn people to leap to..

let’s try that

Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:55 PM on Sun, Jul 02, 2017:
There are times when I look at this kind of ambition, and I doubt my sanity. But if not me, then who? Everybody else has tried; I bat last.
(https://twitter.com/leashless/status/881647561655930880?s=03)

everyone..?

batting last..?

Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:53 PM on Sun, Jul 02, 2017:
Whitepaper probably goes up on Friday.

So many moving parts. Tired. Difficult. The path between this and building refugee cities seems long
(https://twitter.com/leashless/status/881647029696507904?s=03)

doesn’t have to be long

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Food, energy and water etc. are probably humanity’s real problems, and capitalism has proven efficient. Can capitalism be cleaned up? Maybe. https://t.co/lleaU37rFg

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/leashless/status/898872109954285568

perhaps deeper than f e & w..  maté basic needs: a & a

perhaps trust that energy to take care of f e & w et al

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Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:49 AM – 24 Sep 2017 :

We pretty much have to abandon the priorities and obsessions of the past. People were confused. They did bad, stupid things. Do better now. (http://twitter.com/leashless/status/911905504259133440?s=17)

Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:43 AM – 24 Sep 2017 :

We seem to become unmoored in a sea of competing opinions and priorities. We need grand orientation to overcome our short sightedness. (http://twitter.com/leashless/status/911903945135656961?s=17)

Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 4:55 AM – 24 Sep 2017 :

Relative to the achievable goal of spreading life to the stars, very little that our ancestors thought worthwhile actually matters at all. (http://twitter.com/leashless/status/911906912010203137?s=17)

? rather.. spreading life to stars matters little.. less than.. eudaimoniative surplus

Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 5:00 AM – 24 Sep 2017 :

We just have to use capitalism to pull people together around starship factories. How hard can that be? I mean… What would you rather do? (http://twitter.com/leashless/status/911908268171284481?s=17)

the things i can’t not do…ie: follow curiosity…whimsy

Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 5:05 AM – 24 Sep 2017 :

Elon Musk’s vision is better than any political leader. Stop listening to politics. Help Elon save life itself from our past mistakes. (http://twitter.com/leashless/status/911909478546788357?s=17)

oh my

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talk from Vinay

LET’S SAVE THE WORLD AND MAKE A LOT OF MONEY

Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 5:58 AM on Mon, Sep 25, 2017:
https://t.co/vfdpzj2gtl here are my slides discussing what it would take to ICO Elon Musk’s Mars mission.

Talk was fine but too short!
(https://twitter.com/leashless/status/912285226260365314?s=03)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4w3Tams6OYoTGJJdzNDWjFIeE0/view

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Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 5:01 AM on Sun, Oct 01, 2017:
But what is money for if not financing trade? So they’re really taking about tokenizing most of the assets in the real economy. Big plans. https://t.co/9nV8jMFZ0P
(https://twitter.com/leashless/status/914445128298844162?s=03)

and .. we want to finance trade..?

gupta roadblock law

graeber f&b same law

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Vinay Gupta returns to Meaning with his biggest vision yet for global systems change

[https://medium.com/meaning-conference/vinay-gupta-returns-to-meaning-with-his-biggest-vision-yet-for-global-systems-change-84464ee3bb6e]

“At this point, what I’m working towards is trying to redesign how we handle refugees — ..going to have to do a lot of privately financed,..: go into the markets, make some money in technology, hopefully come back and follow the Elon Musk strategy of ‘pay for the change you want to see in the world’. I tried ‘being the change’ and it wasn’t working all that well, but ‘paying for the change’ — that seems like it might work.

“So, step one is to make about £800 million. Step two is to spend this money setting up charter cities that are designed to accept refugees, and finance the process by having the refugees export goods and services on preferential tax rates; which would basically be a subsidy provided by the first world countries as a way of getting the refugee problem solved.

seems we have the means to do this.. w/o perpetuating money as our os

I’m in the position that I’m in because I started running early enough that I got a good position as I ran into the system. ..I look in society for the places where stress has accumulated and I use that map to position myself forward, because I’m carrying this hexayurt thing. It’s going to require the investment of enormous sums of money to build hexayurt cities and then hexayurt countries for the climate refugees. If I get squashed now, none of that is going to get done.”

“I’m running around with a view of the future which is far more realistic than almost anyone else in the blockchain space has. Therefore I’m continually three or four steps ahead because I don’t believe that decentralisation is utopian. I don’t think it’s going to produce a better world at all. Centralisation can be the FDA ensuring you don’t have dioxins in your food. Decentralisation can be people marrying their thirteen-year-old cousins in rural Utah. This all cuts both ways. There is getting it right and there is any particular given political dogma. And all of the political sides are wrong — all of them are wrong.

“I think accountability could produce a better world, and you could get accountability from blockchain; but decentralisation in the mode that people are currently practising it is simply hypercapitalism with another set of fangs..

fundamentally anathema to the vast majority of people in the blockchain space. They think you’re going to get full decentralisation, they don’t want to think about the black state and its weapon stockpiles, they absolutely don’t want to think about environmental constraints. It’s just a ‘yeah it’s all going to work out’ kind of future. But it’s not all going to work out. It might work out for well-armed white people in rich countries, but it’s certainly not going to work out for everybody else.”

Forty-five is the age that you begin to enter structural power, and for the most part the hippy leadership never made it that far. It’s a recurring, inter-generational cycle.

For Vinay, this is a time for building, not fighting.

If activists have allowed themselves to be drained of their effectiveness, could this be because they have too often prioritised sensibility above strategy?

No one really understands the issues, you’ve got to wait until people are actively beginning to push for basic income before you start dropping everything to go and deliver basic income. It’s a waiting game.”

“The one thing that I think might be worth fighting for (in mean time) is laboratory grown meat…wind up with the ability to get the population off cow, it will make an enormous difference to our global warming emissions. Enormous. Bigger than getting rid of cars. It takes all of the land use pressure of nature.

He will regularly remind you that it’s impossible to confront the future without also tearing up your sensibilities; and it is clear that this is a deeply held existential position. As an advanced practitioner of Kriya Yoga, Vinay likens the task to the ancient principles of Tantric philosophy: ”the continual pursuit of truth over social conformity.”

As with any topic on which Vinay holds forth — you pigeonhole him at your peril.

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@dantegabryell

youtube.com/watch?v=dla42b…

common os economically – where rules on global basis aren’t diff.. money to do all this comes from the liquidity.. a mazing

1:39 – finally being able to perceive blockchain projects that live up to potential tech actually has.. and this is that..

is it potential if still measuring..?

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Rahul Singireddy (@rahulsingireddy) tweeted at 6:20 PM on Wed, Oct 18, 2017:
My first piece in Forbes covering @leashless ! Thanks to @richardmuirhead and @laurashin for the opportunity.

https://t.co/GOLrNZlfSG
(https://twitter.com/rahulsingireddy/status/920806933300355072?s=03)

It was from the Internet that Gupta first heard about a festival called Burning Man. “In those days, more or less everyone knew more or less everything that was happening on the Internet all at the same time,” Gupta said. “There was no sense that the Internet was too big to understand. There just wasn’t that much stuff there.” In 1996, Gupta went to his first Burn. There were 8000 people in attendance, with no street signs and a theme of corporate takeover. It was very wild and very weird to the kid from rural Scotland, but he liked it. Gupta kept coming back for ten years. “It was Burning Man. It was just the staggering, the amazing, the Burning Man. The Burn

Of particular importance to cryptocurrency was the Cypherpunkmailing list, which Gupta was a part of. Founded in 1992, the list hosted futuristic technology discussion about a wide range of subjects, and had nearly 2000 members in 1997 with an average of 30 messages sent every day.

Gupta saw Bitcoin in its early years but completely ignored it. “I was not interested in speculating or making money through speculating,” Gupta said. ..I knew from the E-Gold community that payments weren’t enough. E-gold had payments and it didn’t create any kind of new social structure.”

He picked up a heavy meditation practice after buying a book on the Internet written by an Australian named Paul Wilson called The Calm Technique. And soon he found himself involved in an unlikely field: disaster relief. Gupta’s biggest accomplishment to date is the design of the Hexayurt, a disaster relief tent that can be folded and transported. “A bunch of hippies asked me if I could figure out how to build a geodesic dome without waste. After I invented it I felt obligated to do something.”

in 2001, Gupta was at the Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado, an environmental think tank. ..Can someone design a shelter which can be packed flat, transported, and put back up again? So refugees can be given a reusable house. A tent that can be folded. And I sat down, with the back of the envelope, and 15 minutes later I had the Hexayurt.”

The first model was built in 2003 at Burning Man, 6 feet high, 7 feet long, and 8 feet wide. Gupta tried for years to get the Hexayurt to be widely adopted for disaster relief, but was unable to get past the bureaucracy of NGO’s.

Gupta then moved further into the resilience field, improbably winding up at the Pentagon advising them on large scale disaster management, as well as on how to use cryptography to protect civil rights. He continued this work at the UCL Institute for Security and Resilience Studies in the UK, working for the former UK Secretary of Defense, John Reid. Then, he jumped back into crypto fully, coordinating Ethereum’s release in 2015.

 Gupta is the earliest of adopters, motivated by intellectual curiosity rather than monetary gain.

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Rob Knight

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Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:39 PM on Thu, Dec 07, 2017:
https://t.co/wxYmiiiDz3 I want to live in this world. I do live in this world. The camera, which is the eye which can see this way, is in a box. Perhaps time to get it out again. Bit of time to think over the holidays. Bit of time to remember how to see. I’m losing perspective.
(https://twitter.com/leashless/status/938946045224026114?s=03)

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dec 2017 on blockchain:

Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 7:12 PM on Sat, Dec 16, 2017:
Heading for 200 retweets of this. Very very surprised that people are so receptive to the message. https://t.co/UCrKVv7ZID has the whole tweetstorm as a Medium post, with some links that expand on the details. Let me know what you think! https://t.co/C06PfxxKZD
(https://twitter.com/leashless/status/942216006860238848?s=03)

the great grandaddy of horrible problems blockchain can solve is terrorist and criminal financing.

how about a deeper problem..  making terrorism and financing irrelevant (which i learned from vinay)

So what do we do?

..a society without waste, including of human potential.

let’s just start there.. that energy would do it..

A very low waste society is a fascinating place: I imagine that everything has a price and an owner.

imagine ‘price and owner’ as irrelevant

a zero waste society must admit market failures need to be fixed by non-market mechanisms. But everything improves as you reduce waste: waste is entropy, and is not life the constant process of order winning against entropy, of pattern’s victory over mere chaos?

entropy ness..? mere chaos..?

There are probably four or five other big plays out there: banking the unbanked, global identity w. crypto to protect your biometrics, microtransactions, currencies backed by natural resources, and C2C versions of fintech normally used for businesses (i.e. hedging a flight or insuring your car from breaking down on a family road trip.)

only big plays based on man made money..? why..?

These big play projects are at the same general level of ambition as “let’s map the entire world using satellites and drones” or “let’s connect people to everybody they’ve ever met” or “let’s digitize all human knowledge.” The dotcom era got several more of these things done (hello, mobile phones!) and I don’t see any reason the blockhchain era should not have at least as much impact.

won’t get there if stuck in fin dom.. let go

You put all this stuff together, in an age of increasing and accelerating global change, and you break down some dumb structure around health, education, social care (i.e. medical records portability, transparent service pricing in hospitals) and the blockchain is soon indispensable to everyday life. If we play our cards right, we might even get there in a semi-regulated or only lightly regulated state.

only if we use it to facil everyday life.. if we use it to measure transactions.. facil made up money.. blockchain becomes a facilitator of that waste .. that you’re trying to get rid of

I’m doing my part here. Mattereum.com (@Mattereum) is my bid to get the necessary legal frameworks in place to make direct control of physical property using the blockchain recognized in 150+ countries. I want to break the door open to the material world so you can change the status of a *smart contract, and have a real-world court recognize that legal ownership of a fiat asset has changed hands. Fiddly, but it’s **necessary infrastructure for all of our next steps together.

*smart contracts.. **are you sure..? .. let go

Maintaining our political viability as we grow is going to need massive investments in public facing apps that solve real problems. We will need to show people things that really *make people feel they are living in a better future to maintain these valuations. It’s going to require proof that we are the future, not just carpetbagging promisers.

how about just.. *help people live better..

no proof.. no train

We need a bigger, better vision of the Bitcoin Future (and, yes, the Ethereum and general crypto future) if we are going to hold together the ship against pressure.

*we need a deeper/simpler/more-open vision..

I really believe that the Ethereum community has a ton of the pieces of that puzzle: smart contracts give us the reach to really interact with the real world. But we aren’t going to get to houses and cars on the blockchain without some real effort to find social utility in addition to the straight financial play.

I’m trying to frame the zone of aspirations, the things we should be fighting for as we go forwards into 2018 — the year that the blockchain is recognized as a global power, and has to learn to act like one.

only if we use it as it could be

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Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 6:59 AM on Wed, Dec 20, 2017:
Let’s change the damn world… https://t.co/nXV2d5Ka7G
(https://twitter.com/leashless/status/943480913471639553?s=03)

for (blank)’s sake…

ie: hlb via 2 convos that io dance.. as the day..  a nother way

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Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) tweeted at 3:15 AM – 24 Dec 2017 :

One of the things I remember best from my training with @leashless “Ian, you need to accept that on Earth, God has terrible aesthetic (moral/ethical) preferences.”

Earth is as it is because humans want it as it is.

This truth needs deep thinking on. (http://twitter.com/iwelsh/status/944874209645383680?s=17)

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Michel Bauwens (@mbauwens) tweeted at 3:03 AM – 1 Feb 2018 :

RT @instigating: “People buying #bitcoin are shorting the status quo” @leashless calls for collective investment in governance + lobbies https://t.co/kUjJlPB3Lb (http://twitter.com/mbauwens/status/959004348096352257?s=17)

post from dec 2017 – The great ICO freeze is beginning. What does it mean for crypto in 2018?

blockchains could enable a nearly zero-waste society. What’s that worth? 10% of GDP? 25% of GDP? 50% of GDP?

how do you have near zero waste if you’re still measuring gdp..? if you’re still measuring..?

On the other hand, unlike Libertarian visions of the future, a zero waste society must admit market failures need to be fixed by non-market mechanisms.

ie: mechs that make money/market irrelevant..

But everything improves as you reduce waste: waste is entropy, and is not life the constant process of order winning against entropy, of pattern’s victory over mere chaos?

winning against entropy ..? or swimming w it.. ? up cycling.. et al

If a year from now we’re going to see the crypto space at $1tn of assets (rather than less than five hundred million), it’s going to have to be like Apple: used by a billion people every day, and loved by most of them. Otherwise, it really will have been a bubble, and the wealth will drain away as quickly as it arrived. Build like hell, it’s the only thing that gives us a right to exist….We will need to show people things that really make people feel they are living in a better future to maintain these valuations.

need a mech/infra.. that is based on something 7 bn people already crave.. no sales pitch needed.. no training needed..

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Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 5:15 AM – 12 Feb 2018 :

The reason is that naming things is one of the two hard problems in computer science. The other is cache invalidation.

I have a deep, old philosophy of names. I haven’t been able to write it up properly yet! https://t.co/jtIBd1VH81 will have to do for now. https://t.co/qY9XL4hrRD (http://twitter.com/leashless/status/963023827654586372?s=17)

interview w @LukeRobertMason

hexayurt rejection because it lasts too long

11 min – fundamental problems 1\ if human beings feel they lack something they need they become aggressive (can go toward others via mechs including econ competition .. or toward nature via extraction).. so unless we find ways of getting everybody what they need we’re going to be continue to be exposed to enormous amounts of violence

have/need ness

gershenfeld sel

12 min – and exposure to violence is not something that just happens to losers.. winners are also exposed to violence.. nobody really wants to live a life that’s dominated by violence.. so have to think in terms of resource abundance.. as way we unpack human psych/physical violence.. but getting to resource abundance is very difficult.. because so many of our systems are run on pure competition.. and even worse they’re run on status competition.. which is an endless treadmill.. end up with infinite consumption.. never satisfied..

affluence w/o abundance

13 min – so what i wanted to figure out during that 12 yr arc – how do we build the essential mechs of life at a cheap enough level that anybody could afford them.. even the people that are already very poor.. most of the work on poverty assumes the solution is to make poor people wealthier so they can compete in the market resources.. but then you have this ladder bubble..  if instead you take the price of central goods/services and bring them down to point where poor can afford them on their existent budgets.. nobody gets politically annoyed.. (ie: iphone for $15 vs double farmers wages)

what about people who don’t have any budget..? begs we disengage from money

so.. came to conclusion this was totally possible.. but came to conclusion that nobody would fund it.. then decided i would try the elon musk model of just take a bn dollars out of market capitalism and fund the research myself.. and that’s what i’m doing in blockchain

38 min – on cryptocurrencies as lab to experiment w hyper capitalism.. seeing smart people running around w a lot of money.. do amazing things..

graeber min/max law.. but need to get back to .. everyone getting that access

40 min – what are humans for if not to go out and explore the universe.. (have had means for some time).. why haven’t we.. a governance issue.. could have said.. moon is not enough.. and had radio broadcast coming back decades ago.. humans landing on another planet.. but.. we didn’t get our act together..

dang vinay.. how about.. to take care of each other.. here..

41 min – (luke): silicon valley.. (going into) space.. is all about infinite land.. ai about infinite slave labor.. what i worry about.. is the blockchain is essentially the third part of that.. which is the infinite growth of capital.. t.. we’re basing on such an old .. 1700 model (smith)  .. are we in trouble sir..?

oh. it’s much worse than that.. that’s a billion year old model.. and it’s called life.. life expands to fill every available niche.. it mutates into the niches that it can’t currently get into.. and all resources get pulled in

wtf..? what about 99% of our existence wasn’t like that..?

42 min – i’m not saying the market model is a true rep of the state of nature.. it’s obviously not.. but at the end of the day.. why are we here.. i think it would be quite cool if in 5 bn years looking back.. said: those 21st cent humans really did a good thing when they got off the planet.. they took evolution into the stars.. that’s worth doing.. right.. to be of the generation that went interstellar.. we can be the only living things that have ever done it.. that’s worth doing.. i don’t think anything else is really that important.. grand sweep of cosmic history.. getting into the stars is the only thing that really matters.. everything else scrambles to dust.. but if we get out there and figure out how to live out there.. there’s a lot of out there.. nothing else you’re working on is really that important.. it’s all these local obsessions.. people fuss with.. saying.. it’s a terrible thing.. really..? compared to us getting hit by an asteroid and everybody dies and that’s the end of life on the entire universe.. none of it matters.. big mistake after ww2 when put a bunch of money toward missiles instead of toward rockets

dang

dang

44 min – the real bio politic is that life expands and when it doesn’t it turns cannibal.. because didn’t go to stars when we had the opp.. we’re murdering each other on earth.. and we’re not going to stop murdering each other on earth until we reclaim our birthright..  which is the high frontier.. we must go or we will murder each other

holy cow

ethereum and smart contracts – way of arranging mass cooperation.. public choice

?

46 min – mars mission.. couple 100 bn.. probably funded by crypto currencies

47 min – luke: great.. for musk and all.. but what about us vinay..

50 min – so finally.. get to talk about econ.. this is basically an econ issue.. (internet 3.0)

51 min – 1\ john nash in early work.. situation that’s terrible for everybody.. coord problem to solve..

begs we leap.. much less ridiculous than going to the stars

2\ coase

53 min – 3\ benkler saying commons.. ie: wikipedia benefit is big completeness

54 min – what we missed.. and i think this is the unsolved problem of econ..  the big co’s from the free net

56 min – ability to rapidly move money to coordinate actions of species.. could use blockchain to police this system..

how about disengage from money..  worst middle man ever.. use gershenfeld sel to not have to police

57 min – but.. do we have the political will

no..not for that.. go deeper

59 min – your name is not your id.. what’s new.. is your ability to assign yourself a unique name.. this is what generation of crypto keys gives you.. a means to communicate w you w/o ability to steal your id.. this ability to self assign unique names gives us ability to org all kinds of things in the world..

oy.. let’s try curiosity (what matters to you today).. as label.. and org via  2 convos

ie: hlb via 2 convos that io dance.. as the day..[aka: not part\ial.. for (blank)’s sake…]..  a nother way

1:00 – one of biggest problems we have is we don’t know what things are called.. ie: do this for toxic waste..  creating a global id commons.. et al.. how do we thinking about the naming of things.. the innovation of naming things is generally going to be a revolution

label.. just that.. let’s let that be our quiet revolution.. for all of us.. today

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on free speech

Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 0:53 PM on Wed, Mar 21, 2018:
“The blockchain the posterchild for individual, self-organised free speech creating higher-level political structures… if somebody is clever enough to figure out how to use free speech to create currency, it’s very hard to imagine you would stop that.  https://t.co/MuU5DKZLxT
(https://twitter.com/leashless/status/976532236651593732?s=03)

depends how you define currency.. there is a way to use free speech as our flow/circulation

I’m going to talk about individual rights. The blockchain is a system which, at least in theory, is constituted by individual actors from their right to free speech. *The blockchain records a **series of utterances, these are statements, and those statements carry with them a digital signature, the statement with a digital signature is taken as being ***an indicator of somebody’s free action, their free will, ..t .. and as a result it’s very hard to argue that the blockchain should be illegal.

imagine *recording (hostinglb).. **daily utterances (idio-jargon) .. ***indicator of truly free will (self-talk as data)

A series of statements are made by individuals, those statements are *interpreted by other individuals to authorise the transfer of value, and the value only exists because **individuals have chosen to recognise it as having value.

**imagine we determine 2 convos to have value.. imagine we determine daily self-talk to have value.. no need for *other’s interpretations.. as validation/authorization/et-al

It’s very hard to imagine a regime in which you can stop something like that, without fundamentally limiting speech. “You can have all the speech you like, but if your speech is interpreted by other people as being a transfer of value, I’m very sorry, you’re going to have to pay taxes on that.”

imagine doing all this sans money/measuring

So the machinery which is used to actually carry out your rights changes over time. .. we’re going to be in a position where there is a constant struggle over the interpretation and reinterpretation of basic human rights, as technology either strips those rights or reinforces those rights. And because electronic communications are a fantastic mechanism for speech, speech rights are the most heavily affected initial rights in these kinds of systems.

let’s focus on that (which also begs that people are detoxed)

ie: hlb via 2 convos that io dance.. as the day..[aka: not part\ial.. for (blank)’s sake…]..  a nother way

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convo w James Young (notes from convo on james’s page) on energy and blockchain

Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 1:59 PM on Thu, Mar 22, 2018:
Watch this video about @ImpactPPA https://t.co/UVBfyYvnRP James and I discuss how #microgrids and #blockchain can transform life for billions of people, and the role of hardware in building a new economy. I’m glad to be part of this project!
(https://twitter.com/leashless/status/976911256421531649?s=03)

Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 2:07 PM on Thu, Mar 22, 2018:
A particularly fabulous part of the @ImpactPPA interview https://t.co/oI0pNGbYr2 James Young describes how his experience scaling Farmville is just like keeping electrical grids going, and avoiding brownouts is like preventing web servers falling over. Superb!
(https://twitter.com/leashless/status/976913265925279744?s=03)

(on vinay – i can’t think of anyone else.. that is so smart/knowledgeable.. and yet extremely humble.. open to ideas.. considerate..)

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Vinay Gupta (@leashless) tweeted at 2:24 AM on Fri, Mar 23, 2018:
I awoke today with a clearer vision of The Question than I’ve had in a while. “Can software minimize waste and accidental damage, while also fostering benign pro-social behaviour?”

Note software could be “the market” or “religion” or any other social construct. Hard question.
(https://twitter.com/leashless/status/977098858164572160?s=03)

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

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 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/qCzE2nwwdiWe 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
(https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1115776153061658624?s=03)

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)

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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

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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.. 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..

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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/4hWmzoTBXGfor 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)

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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

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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

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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

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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/1143320155411365889

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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 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

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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

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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..

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