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24 August 2025
- 14:3514:35, 24 August 2025 diff hist +2,223 N Energy SuperAbundance Hypothesis Created page with " = The SuperAbundance Hypothesis: < overbuilding renewables is not waste — it’s the cornerstone of a post-scarcity energy future. > "we dive deep into current research on overbuilding renewables – examining its feasibility, cost-effectiveness, and implications." See: Nafeez Ahmed reviews the research at [https://ageoftransformation.org/inside-the-breakthrough-science-of-clean-energy-superabundance/] =More information= '''References:''' American Solar Energy S..." current
- 14:3414:34, 24 August 2025 diff hist +2,184 Category:Thermodynamic Efficiencies →The Energy basis of our economy and civilization
- 14:3214:32, 24 August 2025 diff hist +2,170 Category:Energy →Renewables
- 14:0414:04, 24 August 2025 diff hist +634 N Former vs Informal Empire Created page with " =Contextual Quote= * "The foremost contradiction in our recent political systems has been the antagonism of formal and informal empire. The former is engaged in what we conventionally understand under conquest and colonisation: Armies under the banner of some nation showing up in another part of the world in order to take territory. The latter runs on the soft power of international legitimacy, the art of diplomacy and the strength of a common vision for the future."..." current
- 13:5613:56, 24 August 2025 diff hist +3,411 N Cross-Horizon Encounter Created page with " =Discussion= Charles McKelvey: "when we seek to understand, we proceed within a particular social context, which includes a coherent set of values, facts, and assumptions concerning the world. Stressing that this worldview is rooted in a particular social place, Lonergan calls it our “horizon,” analogous to a place from which we view a physical landscape. He wrote, “As our field of vision, so too the scope of our knowledge, and the range of our interests are bou..."
- 07:5707:57, 24 August 2025 diff hist +1,812 N Henry Farrell on LLMs as Cultural Technologies Created page with " =Discussion= Chor Pharn: "Henry Farrell – LLMs as Cultural Technologies and the Return of the Prophetic Spirit Henry Farrell’s view is LLMs are “cultural technologies”, deeply enmeshed in human social systems rather than isolated artificial brains. Human beings, as Herbert Simon reminds us, are remarkably limited in individual problem-solving capacity and thus outsource much of our cognition to larger social systems. Over centuries we have leaned on markets,..." current
- 07:5407:54, 24 August 2025 diff hist +925 N Progress Studies Created page with " URL = https://www.lesswrong.com/w/progress-studies =Description= Arctotherium: "Progress Studies is a combination of academic discipline and political movement aiming to study “the causes of civilizational progress”, i.e., the “economic, technological, scientific, and cultural advancements that have transformed human life and raised standards of living over the past couple of centuries”. Those under its banner (such as Tyler Cowen and Jason Crawford) tend t..." current
- 06:2906:29, 24 August 2025 diff hist +258 N Planetary Health Check Created page with "'''= "the most comprehensive, science-based global initiative dedicated to measuring and maintaining the Earth system."''' URL = https://www.planetaryhealthcheck.org/ Category:P2P_Accounting Category:Thermodynamic_Efficiencies Category:Ecology" current
23 August 2025
- 15:5715:57, 23 August 2025 diff hist +19,437 N Commons-Based Strategy of Social Change Created page with " =Source= '''* Article: What do we do, right now, at this moment in the transition ? Suggestions for a commons-based strategy of social change. By Michel Bauwens, Jun 23, 2025''' URL = https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/what-do-we-do-right-now-at-this-moment =Text= Michel Bauwens: ==Recapitulating the evolution of the commons== In our last Substack article, we attempted to provide a full historical overview of the evolution of the commons as an insti..." current
- 15:4615:46, 23 August 2025 diff hist +69 Fourth Generation Civilization Substack Newsletter of Michel Bauwens →Contents
- 15:4115:41, 23 August 2025 diff hist +1,998 N SEEDS Currency Created page with " URL = https://joinseeds.earth/ =Description= Mammouth.AI: “Chuck Harris's SEEDS Currency is a blockchain-based complementary currency designed to foster sustainability, community collaboration, and regenerative economics. It operates on a Bancor-like system, allowing for dynamic exchange rates between different community currencies while maintaining liquidity.” =Characteristics= Key Features of SEEDS Currency ==Complementary Currency System== SEEDS is not..." current
- 15:3715:37, 23 August 2025 diff hist +1,810 N Commodity Reserve Currency Created page with " =Description= Mammouth.AI: “Benjamin Graham, the legendary investor and father of value investing, proposed the idea of a Commodity Reserve Currency (CRC) as a way to stabilize the global monetary system. His concept was outlined in his 1944 book, "World Commodities and World Currency" (co-authored with Frank D. Graham), and later refined in his 1949 book, "The Intelligent Investor. =Characteristics= Key Features of Graham’s Commodity Reserve Currency (CRC):..." current
- 15:3215:32, 23 August 2025 diff hist +1,236 N Theosis Created page with " =Discussion= Alexander Beiner: "When things fall apart, the promise of control hits like a drug. But what if there’s a better high? Namely, Theosis. The pendulum swing in cultural values we’re living through might be part of a deeper trend in the Western psyche. In his recent session on Sensemaking 102, cognitive scientist John Vervaeke argued that Western culture pendulums so wildly because of an inability to reconcile two aspects of human agency rooted in the C..." current
- 15:3015:30, 23 August 2025 diff hist +1,773 Stablecoin →Discussion
- 15:2815:28, 23 August 2025 diff hist +1,062 Machiavellians No edit summary current
- 15:2615:26, 23 August 2025 diff hist +785 N Vilfredo Pareto's Residues vs Derivations Created page with " =Typology= Westering Sun: "One of Burnham’s key influences was Vilfredo Pareto, a polymath who conceived social behaviour as shaped by two forces: residues and derivations. * Residues reflect the deep, unspoken impulses that drive behaviour—such as the instinct to preserve our physical security, property or territory. * Derivations, meanwhile, are the surface rationalizations that mask instinctive drives beneath appeals to morality, fairness, or other general..." current
- 12:1712:17, 23 August 2025 diff hist +2,450 N AI-Enabled Localization Created page with " =Description= Benjamin Life: “Paradoxically, the same AI threatening global homogenization enables unprecedented localization. This represents a fundamental shift from centuries-old economies of scale driving centralization toward "economies of scope"—efficiently producing highly customized solutions for specific communities and contexts. Rather than relying on centralized monopolies for one-size-fits-all solutions, communities can build bespoke systems tailored..." current
- 12:1412:14, 23 August 2025 diff hist +1,612 N GENIUS Act Created page with " '''* The GENIUS Act: Permission-Based Planetary Ownership''' URL = https://indoeden.substack.com/p/the-day-nature-became-a-security =Description= MAATR: "On July 18, 2025, the GENIUS Act became law. Buried in regulatory language was this line: "Only permitted issuers may issue a payment stablecoin for use by U.S. persons, subject to certain exceptions and safe harbors." This sentence restructures planetary ownership. The act grants states the right to issu..." current
- 12:1112:11, 23 August 2025 diff hist +72 N Permission-Based Planetary Ownership Created page with " * See: GENIUS Act Category:Peerproperty Category:P2P Law " current
- 12:0812:08, 23 August 2025 diff hist +6,143 Network Nations No edit summary
- 11:5711:57, 23 August 2025 diff hist +1,187 N AI Democracy Levels Framework Created page with " '''* Position Paper: Democratic AI is Possible: The Democracy Levels Framework.''' URL = https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09222? =Description= "This position paper argues that effectively "democratizing AI" requires democratic governance and alignment of AI, and that this is particularly valuable for decisions with systemic societal impacts. Initial steps -- such as Meta's Community Forums and Anthropic's Collective Constitutional AI -- have illustrated a promising direct..." current
- 08:0408:04, 23 August 2025 diff hist −210 Category:P2P Solidarity →We Are Not Meant To Be Rescued in Isolation
- 08:0408:04, 23 August 2025 diff hist +1,912 Category:P2P Solidarity →Quotes
- 07:0007:00, 23 August 2025 diff hist +189 Category:Crypto Economy →Key Resources
- 06:5906:59, 23 August 2025 diff hist +189 Category:Peerfunding →An Update on the Crypto Economy and Blockchain-Based Financing current
- 06:5806:58, 23 August 2025 diff hist +520 N Community Funding Protocols Created page with " '''= "empower communities to collectively fund initiatives that align with their values, from Universal Basic Income (UBI) schemes to public goods, art, open-source software, and more."''' [https://greenpill.network/pdf/onchain-impact-networks.pdf] =More information= * Report: On-Chain Impact Networks: How Crypto Is Being Used To Regenerate The World. A GreenPill Network Writer’s Guild. URL = https://greenpill.network/pdf/onchain-impact-networks.pdf Catego..." current
- 06:5606:56, 23 August 2025 diff hist +4,099 N On-Chain Impact Networks Created page with " '''* Report: On-Chain Impact Networks: How Crypto Is Being Used To Regenerate The World. A GreenPill Network Writer’s Guild.''' URL = https://greenpill.network/pdf/onchain-impact-networks.pdf =Context= "An impact DAO or impact network is a group of individuals coordinating to create systems change in alignment with pluralistic values and vision. - Ron Rivers Using web3 tech and specifically distributed consensus mechanisms to empower social infrastructure and pos..." current
22 August 2025
- 12:5512:55, 22 August 2025 diff hist +3,809 Evolution →Other Characteristics of evolution current
- 08:0508:05, 22 August 2025 diff hist +1,293 Ethereum Localism →Book current
- 06:0206:02, 22 August 2025 diff hist +23 TERA Project in Lustrac, France →More information current
21 August 2025
- 07:3907:39, 21 August 2025 diff hist +992 N Biosenescense Created page with " '''= Biosenescense = the the terminal threshold of natural productivity''' URL = https://biosenescence.com/ < The future of natural capital depends on recognising biological time. Until you include biosenescence, you’re not measuring reality. > =Description= + "WHAT IS BIOSENESCENCE “It is not the end of life. It is the end of yield.” Biosenescence is the moment when a living system can no longer produce value even though it remains biologically alive...." current
- 07:3507:35, 21 August 2025 diff hist +4,152 Interbeing No edit summary current
- 07:3307:33, 21 August 2025 diff hist +1,756 N UNIT - Fractal Monetary Ecosystem Created page with "'''= "fractal monetary framework, which allows global financial system to function without directly using any national currencies for international trade and reserves".''' URL = https://wp.unitfoundation.org =Description- White Paper: "The UNIT fractal monetary ecosystem introduces a practical approach to creating essentially “apolitical money” that can be freely used as a storage of value or currency for payments via any open payment and clearing system, while..." current
- 07:0407:04, 21 August 2025 diff hist +1,898 Cosmopolis →Discusssion (1) current
- 06:5806:58, 21 August 2025 diff hist +1,229 N Civilizational Memory Created page with " =Characteristics= Venkatesh Rao: "'''Civilizational memory can be understood in terms of three entangled strands — affective, declarative, and procedural'''. These correspond, roughly, to myth-based, event-based, and econo-legal senses of history. The US constitution, for instance, embodies all three elements in a single print-based artifact. There is the sacralized mythology (bordering on theology, complete with a reverential hermeneutic tradition) of what the Fo..." current
- 06:5606:56, 21 August 2025 diff hist +2,885 Cosmopolis No edit summary
- 06:5406:54, 21 August 2025 diff hist −1,656 Cosmopolis No edit summary
- 06:5106:51, 21 August 2025 diff hist +1,296 Category:Global Governance →Long Quotes
- 06:5006:50, 21 August 2025 diff hist +1,282 Category:Network Nations No edit summary
- 06:4906:49, 21 August 2025 diff hist −2 Cosmopolis →Contextual Quote
- 06:4706:47, 21 August 2025 diff hist +1,277 Cosmopolis No edit summary
- 06:3506:35, 21 August 2025 diff hist +3,401 N Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science Created page with " =Description= Scott Morris and Stephen DeMeulenaere: "R. Buckminster Fuller’s vision of Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science offers a radical and necessary alternative. Fuller, an iconoclastic inventor, architect, and systems theorist, proposed a proactive methodology for problem-solving that aims to “reform the environment, not man.” It is not about predicting the future, but about understanding trends, patterns, and the fundamental principles governing co..." current
- 06:3406:34, 21 August 2025 diff hist −1 Cosmopolitan Communities No edit summary current
20 August 2025
- 07:3107:31, 20 August 2025 diff hist +11,076 Emergence of the Crypto Commons No edit summary current
- 06:3606:36, 20 August 2025 diff hist +1,970 N Credible Neutrality in Web3 Funding Mechanisms Created page with " = research project '''* Credible Neutrality Through Mechanism Design in Dedicated Domain Allocation: A Commons-Based Approach to Collective Intelligence.''' URL = ([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cepg2JIlEJjAVhbwTFEYdRQ2q1ukk2ADEnbKqY1OcXM/edit]) =Description= '''1.''' "This research explores how credible neutrality can emerge through mechanism design in dedicated domain allocation systems, specifically within the context of commons-based collective intellige..." current
- 06:2706:27, 20 August 2025 diff hist +1,751 Category:Regenerative Approaches No edit summary current
- 06:2506:25, 20 August 2025 diff hist +1,998 Regen Coordination No edit summary current
19 August 2025
- 13:0313:03, 19 August 2025 diff hist +2,399 N Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe Created page with " '''* Book: Elizabeth Eisenstein. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe.''' URL = =Discussion= Venkatesh Rao: "The book clearly draws out the difference between the technology of the printing press, and the protocols of print culture that took root in the abstract soil it created. The emergent European effects of these protocols — the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment — soon reshaped the entire world. Based on Eisenstein’s model,..." current
- 07:5607:56, 19 August 2025 diff hist +7,292 N Cosmopolitan Communities Created page with " =Discussion= Ralph Horat and Jan Baeriswyl: “While village communities have for a long time been the place where social bonds were being forged and one’s own identity was being formed, that changed radically in the course of industrialization. Our everyday life has been divided into private and professional life, our space into individualistic housing estates and private office buildings, and our social environment into a circle of family and friends and work coll..."
- 07:5507:55, 19 August 2025 diff hist +5,272 Cosmopolis No edit summary