User contributions for Mbauwens

2 October 2025

• 21:5921:59, 2 October 2025 diff hist +2,569‎ N Robert Nisbet on How the Religious Community and Civilizational Form Differs from the Political and the Military Form ‎ Created page with " =Discussion= Paul Mueller: "The third major form of community contrasts with the first two. Christianity and the religious community have profoundly shaped western culture. Nisbet focuses on how subversive universal religions like Christianity are. Jesus demands complete obedience—even to the sacrificing of relationship with father, mother, sister, or brother. One’s relationship with Christ becomes the primary identity and the community of faith takes precedence o..." current
• 21:5521:55, 2 October 2025 diff hist +1,507‎ N Feudalism as a Militaristic Community ‎ Created page with " =Discussion= Paul Mueller: "Feudalism also developed as a kind of militaristic community. It was concerns about military order and community that captivated the attention of Machiavelli(1469–1527 AD). He was fascinated by the role of war and war-making in the state. Similarly, Grotius (1583–1645 AD) wrote his monumental works about international law and rights through the prism of just and unjust warfare. In fact, warfare seems remarkably prevalent in western Euro..." current
• 21:5321:53, 2 October 2025 diff hist +1,717‎ N Robert Nisbet on the Military-Civilizational Transition in Ancient Rome ‎ Created page with " =Discussion= Paul Mueller: "Nisbet tells a similar story about the transition from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire. Pressures from war were the crucible that forged Roman society into a military community. And the process was remarkably similar to what had occurred in Athens. In Rome, the idea of the “patria potestas” dominated during the Republic. Fathers were priest and king of the family. Families were their own religious and political communities. Every..." current
• 21:5121:51, 2 October 2025 diff hist +2,894‎ N Robert Nisbet on the Military-Civilizational Transition in Ancient Greece ‎ Created page with " =Discussion= Paul Mueller: "The three primary forms of community are the Military, the Political, and the Religious. More recent organizing forms of community are the Revolutionary, the Ecological, and the Plural communities. Each community emerges through conflict with other forms of community. All of them represent departures from what we might call the “original” human community of kinship. The military community powerfully competes with the community built ar..." current
• 21:4121:41, 2 October 2025 diff hist +663‎ Proof of Authority ‎No edit summary current
• 21:3821:38, 2 October 2025 diff hist +4,149‎ N Vocdoni ‎ Created page with " =Description= Ferran Reyes: "Vocdoni is a decentralized, censorship-resistant and transparent digital voting system. The idea of building Vocdoni was conceived informally among crypto enthusiasts, cryptographers, and distributed systems experts stunned by the effectiveness of the censorship over the 2017 Catalan referendum. This group’s goal was to develop a decentralized governance system that would bypass any form of censorship anywhere in the world, similar to w..." current
• 21:3321:33, 2 October 2025 diff hist +82‎ N Decentralized, Censorship-Resistant Digital Voting System ‎ Created page with " =Example= * Vocdoni Category:Democracy Category:Crypto Governance " current
• 21:1121:11, 2 October 2025 diff hist +4,378‎ Network State ‎ →‎The concept
• 01:3701:37, 2 October 2025 diff hist +1,733‎ N Big Asia ‎ Created page with " '''* Article: Nile Green, Big Asia: Rethinking a Region, The American Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 2, June 2025, Pages 646–651,''' URL = https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaf178 =Description= "In recent years, after decades of increasing specialization, new approaches have emerged in Asian studies that focus on larger units of analysis. Some are predicated on transnational or transimperial spaces, whether based around language (the “Persianate world” and..." current
• 01:2501:25, 2 October 2025 diff hist +963‎ Category:IP ‎ →‎Long Citations current
• 01:2401:24, 2 October 2025 diff hist +978‎ Knowledge Commons ‎No edit summary current
• 01:2301:23, 2 October 2025 diff hist +1,018‎ Knowledge Commoning ‎No edit summary current
• 01:1601:16, 2 October 2025 diff hist +173‎ Category:Rights ‎ →‎Key Books current

1 October 2025

• 12:1612:16, 1 October 2025 diff hist +66‎ Vietnam's Policy on AI Sovereignty ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1512:15, 1 October 2025 diff hist −4‎ Vietnam's Policy on AI Sovereignty ‎No edit summary
• 12:1412:14, 1 October 2025 diff hist +933‎ N Vietnam's Policy on AI Sovereignty ‎ Created page with " Nathan Gardels: Vietnam is claiming 'AI Sovereignty': "Who gets to define the terms of intelligence itself? The stakes are stack-level choices — black-box dependence or modular improvisation; opacity or legibility; someone else’s roadmap or a sovereign design of your own … The decision is the difference between consuming intelligence as a service and composing it as an act of sovereignty. One rents a mind, the other trains its own in the wild. “This is, in..."
• 12:1312:13, 1 October 2025 diff hist +2,141‎ N Civilizational AI ‎ Created page with " =Discussion= Nathan Gardels: .. on Kai-Fu Lee on Civilizational AI. "LLMs will indeed carry the imprint of cultural-political values, he posited, not only in China, but everywhere. Different cultural zones with different values will censor different things. While the Chinese state might censor any criticism of the Party, in the West there is a kind of culturally driven “woke” or “anti-woke” censorship over sensitive speech on race and gender. In the Islamic w..."
• 12:0512:05, 1 October 2025 diff hist +1,764‎ Software and Sovereignty ‎ →‎More information current

30 September 2025

• 08:4608:46, 30 September 2025 diff hist +329‎ N Long Cycle of Global Politics and the Nation-State ‎ Created page with " '''* Article: The Long Cycle of Global Politics and the Nation-State. George Modelski. Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 20, No. 2, Varieties of Modernization (Apr., 1978), pp. 214-235''' URL = https://www.jstor.org/stable/178047 Category:P2P Cycles Category:P2P State Approaches Category:Articles "
• 08:3508:35, 30 September 2025 diff hist +615‎ N Patio Community ‎ Created page with " '''= "we are tech cooperatives from all over the world."''' URL = https://patio.coop =Description= "We are a global community of worker cooperatives, specialized in the development of digital technology, communication and design, located in 19 different countries (and growing), working on projects with an international scope. This translates into the permanent possibility of scaling the team to work on projects of dimensions that require it. It also allows us to ass..." current
• 08:3308:33, 30 September 2025 diff hist +35‎ Free Software Cooperatives ‎No edit summary current

28 September 2025

• 21:1321:13, 28 September 2025 diff hist +1,121‎ N Universal Basic Capital ‎ Created page with " =Description= Nathan Gardels: "Digital capitalism that are increasingly divorcing employment and income from productivity growth and wealth creation, generating an ever-accelerating gap between those who “own the robots” and those who labor for their livelihood. Policies that respond to this challenge would foster an ownership share for all in the wealth generated by intelligent machines that are diminishing or displacing gainful employment. The aim is to enhanc..." current
• 21:0021:00, 28 September 2025 diff hist +1,579‎ On Power ‎No edit summary current
• 20:3620:36, 28 September 2025 diff hist +1,774‎ N Franciscan Procurator ‎ Created page with " =Description= Will Ruddick explains: "These were not people gesturing at simplicity. They were radically committed to a life that mirrored the humility of Christ, barefoot and uncluttered, drawn to the edges of wealth and power. For them, money wasn’t just dangerous - it was spiritually radioactive. Saint Francis called it “the dung of the devil.” And indeed, they believed it left a residue, a smell, a heaviness in the soul. Touching coins was not a neutral act...." current

27 September 2025

• 18:4818:48, 27 September 2025 diff hist +3,074‎ Capitalism ‎ →‎Discussion 3
• 18:4618:46, 27 September 2025 diff hist +847‎ Feudalism ‎No edit summary current
• 18:4418:44, 27 September 2025 diff hist +2,406‎ N Mediatized Syndromes ‎ Created page with " =Description= IPA/FLZ: “Disturbances shaped by screen culture, algorithmic influence, and cinematic imagery — and urges clinicians to consider how media environments infiltrate the unconscious.” (https://zizekanalysis.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/ipa-flz-strategy-report-for-combating-mediatized-syndromes/) =Discussion= ==Reclaiming the Unconscious in a Mediatized Age== "In today’s world, the screen has evolved far beyond a mere communication tool – it is..." current
• 18:4018:40, 27 September 2025 diff hist +189‎ End of Woke ‎No edit summary current

26 September 2025

• 03:3503:35, 26 September 2025 diff hist +2,577‎ N Expanded Now ‎ Created page with " =Description= Richard Hames: "One of the most profound shifts needed in futures literacy is a reimagining of time itself. Western models teach us to see and experience time as linear, a relentless arc of progress, invariably teleological. But then many indigenous and non-Western traditions view time as cyclical—an underlying pulse with cadences of growth, decay, and renewal. The Māori concept of Whakapapa, for instance, reminds us that the past, the present, and t..." current
• 03:3003:30, 26 September 2025 diff hist +184‎ Category:P2P Infrastructure ‎ →‎Top Projects at this moment

25 September 2025

• 11:5311:53, 25 September 2025 diff hist +1,686‎ N China as the First Electrostate ‎ Created page with " =Discussion= ==China as the First Electrostate== Chor Pharn: "An electrostate is a country whose power rests on surplus electrons and compute. Instead of living off scarcity rents — coal seams, oil wells, or gas pipelines — it manufactures abundance: solar, wind, nuclear, batteries, and FLOPs. It exports that abundance as electricity, synthetic fuels, and digital infrastructure. China is the world’s first electrostate. In 2023 it added more solar capacity..." current
• 11:5211:52, 25 September 2025 diff hist +1,693‎ N Electro State ‎ Created page with " =Discussion= ==China as the First Electrostate== Chor Pharn: "An electrostate is a country whose power rests on surplus electrons and compute. Instead of living off scarcity rents — coal seams, oil wells, or gas pipelines — it manufactures abundance: solar, wind, nuclear, batteries, and FLOPs. It exports that abundance as electricity, synthetic fuels, and digital infrastructure. China is the world’s first electrostate. In 2023 it added more solar capacit..."
• 11:2511:25, 25 September 2025 diff hist +7,056‎ Against the Machine ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4405:44, 25 September 2025 diff hist +1,366‎ N Pooling Formula of Human Development ‎ Created page with " >< The Coercion Formula of Human Development =Description= Will Ruddick: '''"The Pooling Formula: Communities maximize shared prosperity when pooled and kept promises outweigh the risk of broken promises and everyone’s ability to pull on the commons is capped."''' To say this in another way … We all do well when: People keep their promises more than they break them (you can count on help showing up), and There are clear limits so no one promises too muc..." current
• 05:4105:41, 25 September 2025 diff hist +52‎ Coercion Formula of Human Development ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4005:40, 25 September 2025 diff hist +1,455‎ N Coercion Formula of Human Development ‎ Created page with " =Description= Will Ruddick: "From outright slavery to modern wage coercion, societies have repeatedly optimized for surplus extraction by binding people into work they cannot freely refuse. The formula behind this is simple: '''The Coercion Formula: Elites maximize their gains when the profits they extract are larger than the costs of enforcing control.''' Whenever the costs of maintaining guards, laws, or surveillance are lower than the wealth squeezed from people..."

23 September 2025

• 08:5608:56, 23 September 2025 diff hist +535‎ Ancient City ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4708:47, 23 September 2025 diff hist +128‎ Trust-Minimized Scaling ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4208:42, 23 September 2025 diff hist +3,699‎ N Trust-Minimized Scaling ‎ Created page with " '''= "Solve every problem, at every scale, with the minimal mutual trust required among participants for success."''' [https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/beyond-szabo-scaling] =Context= Venkatesh Rao: '''1.''' "Early in the crypto story, circa 2009-13, there was a lot of talk of trustless architectures, but there has since been a growing appreciation that that’s too strong a term, and not even imaginable in principle, let alone practice. So phrases like “t..."

20 September 2025

• 13:1413:14, 20 September 2025 diff hist +895‎ Category:P2P Technology Theory ‎ →‎Key Quotes
• 13:1013:10, 20 September 2025 diff hist +970‎ N Threshold of Counterproductivity ‎ Created page with " = concept of Ivan Illich =Description= Dougald Hine: "In his pamphlets of the 1970s, Illich analysed what he termed the “threshold of counterproductivity”: the point beyond which increasing the intensity or the amount of a given thing begins to produce the opposite of the intended effect. Returning to the study of history, he wrote of “the war on subsistence” and the destruction of the “vernacular” domain: the capacity of households to meet their own and..." current
• 11:5711:57, 20 September 2025 diff hist +708‎ Plurality ‎No edit summary current

19 September 2025

• 12:2612:26, 19 September 2025 diff hist +876‎ Category:Crypto Economy ‎No edit summary current

18 September 2025

• 05:1005:10, 18 September 2025 diff hist +759‎ Power ‎ →‎Kinds of Power current
• 05:0805:08, 18 September 2025 diff hist +996‎ Power ‎ →‎Typologies
• 05:0505:05, 18 September 2025 diff hist +1,104‎ N Cratology ‎ Created page with " = the study of power =Description= Peter Limberg: "Power is a language one can speak and hear, and it is not explicitly taught in school but rather concealed. The powerful do not want you to be power literate, because they do not want you to know they have power. Rule #1 among the power-savvy: maintaining power requires concealing it. Being knowledgeable about politics does not translate into having good power literacy. In fact, many who are interested in politics..." current

16 September 2025

• 15:5015:50, 16 September 2025 diff hist +571‎ Satoshi Nakamoto ‎ →‎Status current

10 September 2025

• 17:3517:35, 10 September 2025 diff hist −1‎ Political Origins of Environmental Degradation and the Environmental Origins of Axial Religions ‎ →‎Longer abstract (3,317 words): current
• 17:3417:34, 10 September 2025 diff hist +45,708‎ Political Origins of Environmental Degradation and the Environmental Origins of Axial Religions ‎ →‎Description
• 17:0317:03, 10 September 2025 diff hist +1,810‎ Protopolis Lab ‎No edit summary current