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• 03:32, 7 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Hyperhumanism (Created page with " '''= "a counterpoint to transhumanism. Instead of outsourcing our intelligence to machines, hyperhumanism asks us to reclaim the innate capacities of the human body, imagination, and relational field".''' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO01BVw1Ls8] =More information= * Video: Carl Hayden Smith on Hyperhumanism Category:Webcasts Category:Movements Category:P2P Futures ")
• 03:30, 7 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Carl Hayden Smith on Hyperhumanism (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO01BVw1Ls8 =Description= Rudy De Waele: "Carl introduces hyperhumanism as a counterpoint to transhumanism. Instead of outsourcing our intelligence to machines, hyperhumanism asks us to reclaim the innate capacities of the human body, imagination, and relational field. He reminds us: we may not yet be fully human. The task is not optimisation, but slowing down, listening deeply, and inhabiting our natural limits with gr...")
• 08:00, 6 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Charles Marohn on the U.S. Strong Towns Movement (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7FnbCShBKc =Description= "America was a place of untold wealth in the post-war period. But today, many small towns are faltering and facing financial collapse. In this podcast, Strong Towns founder and president Charles Marohn sits down with Marc Barnes and Jacob Hyman to discuss how this collapse came about, and how to rebuild the small town." Category:Webcasts Category:Urbanism ")
• 02:17, 5 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Informational Theory of the New Authoritarianism (Created page with " '''* Article: How Modern Dictators Survive: An Informational Theory of the New Authoritarianism. By Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman.''' URL = https://eui.eu/Documents/DepartmentsCentres/Economics/Seminarsevents/Guriev-Micro.pdf =Description= "We develop an informational theory of dictatorship. Dictators survive not because of their use of force or ideology but because they convince the public—rightly or wrongly—that they are competent. Citizens do not observe...")
• 09:46, 4 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Staking (Created page with " =Description= Blockchain for Good: "Staking involves a user immobilizing and locking tokens in a smart contract. The protocol randomly assigns one of the participants the right to validate a block of transactions and receive a token reward. The "proof-of-stake" mechanism encourages users to lock up their tokens, as the probability of being chosen to validate a block of transactions is proportional to the number of tokens locked. The more tokens a user has locked, the...")
• 09:37, 4 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Crypto-Economic Aspects of the EthicHub Financing Model (Created page with " =Interview= ==The Crypto-Economic Aspects of the EthicHub Financing Model== From an interview of Blockchain for Good with the founder, Jori Armbruster. Translated from the French. * "BfG: '''Let's start with the stablecoin* lending solution you are developing. How do the farmers convert the xDAI into their local currency?''' JA: For conversions, we rely on established exchange platforms. For example, in Mexico, it's [https://bitso.com/ Bitso]. The farmer coopera...")
• 09:18, 4 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Plural Community (Created page with " =Description= Paul Mueller: "The plural community, seems the most attractive to classical liberals—though also to many conservatives. It shares the ecological community’s deep suspicion and dislike of centralized political power and sovereignty. It advocates voluntary associations and intermediate institutions both to preserve tradition and to protect individual liberty. Yet the kind of liberty pluralists concern themselves with is very different from how advocate...")
• 09:17, 4 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Robert Nisbet's Typology of Societal Communities (Created page with " =Typology= * Plural Community * Revolutionary, cfr Robert Nisbet on the Tragic Aspects of Revolutionary Communities as Civilizational Forms‎ * Religious, see: Robert Nisbet on How the Religious Community and Civilizational Form Differs from the Political and the Military Form‎ * Military: ** Feudalism as a Militaristic Community‎ ** Robert Nisbet on the Military-Civilizational Transition in Ancient Rome‎ ** Robert Nisbet on the Milit...")
• 09:06, 4 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Public AI Intelligence (Created page with " =Discussion= Kevin Kelly: "Imagine 50 years from now a Public Intelligence that was a distributed, open-source, non-commercial artificial intelligence, operated like the internet, and available to the whole world. This public AI would be a federated system, not owned by any one entity, but powered by millions of participants to create an aggregate intelligence beyond what one host could offer. Public intelligence could be thought of as an inter-intelligence, an AI co...")
• 12:09, 3 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page OpenxAI Network (Created page with " URL = http://openxai.org "OpenxAI is '''a P2P permissionless AI protocol'''. What Bitcoin did for money, OpenxAI does for intelligence. Anyone anywhere can launch own and monetize AI apps agents and services fully on chain. No banks. No corporations. No gatekeepers. Intelligence becomes open sovereign unstoppable and GPU compute turns liquid with tokenized credits (tGPU). Built by core contributors from Fantom, Solana, ICP, Binance, NEAR, and AragonDAO, OpenxAI runs e...")
• 12:09, 3 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page P2P Permissionless AI Protocol (Created page with " * See: OpenxAI Network Category:Protocols and Algorithms ")
• 22:01, 2 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Robert Nisbet on the Tragic Aspects of Revolutionary Communities as Civilizational Forms (Created page with " =Discussion= Paul Mueller: "the Revolutionary community. Though derivative, in a sense, of all three major types of community (Military, Political, and Religious), the revolutionary community has demonstrated incredible influence. From the French Revolution to the major communist revolutions of the twentieth century to the cultural Marxism and critical race theory of the twenty-first century, the revolutionary community is a force to be reckoned with. Nisbet does an...")
• 21:59, 2 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 21:55, 2 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 21:53, 2 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 21:51, 2 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 21:38, 2 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 21:33, 2 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Decentralized, Censorship-Resistant Digital Voting System (Created page with " =Example= * Vocdoni Category:Democracy Category:Crypto Governance ")
• 01:37, 2 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 12:14, 1 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 12:13, 1 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 08:46, 30 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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 ")
• 08:35, 30 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 21:13, 28 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 20:36, 28 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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....")
• 18:44, 27 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 03:35, 26 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 11:53, 25 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 11:52, 25 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 05:44, 25 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 05:40, 25 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 08:42, 23 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 13:10, 20 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 05:05, 18 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 15:32, 10 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Replacement Economics (Created page with " '''= "the profitable practice of pretending to solve issues by replacing the technology, rather than addressing the issue. Replacement economics defers issues into the future by using new technologies that eventually unravel and compound the problems they were meant to solve."''' [https://georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/replacement-economics-the-scam-that] =Examples= See: https://georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/replacement-economics-the-scam-that Category:Eco...")
• 09:41, 10 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Digital Stack for People and the Planet (Created page with " '''* Report: Rikap C., Durand, C., Paraná, E., Gerbaudo, P. and Marx P. (2024). Reclaiming digital sovereignty: A roadmap to build a digital stack for people and the planet.''' Available at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/Reclaiming-Digital-Sovereignty =Abstract= "This policy paper outlines a progressive reform agenda to enhance digital sovereignty for people and the planet with the following 4 key proposals: * Offer a democratic, public-led dig...")
• 09:04, 10 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Scale Theory (Created page with " * '''Book: Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry. Joshua DiCalglio.''' URL = =Description= “It’s a book bout how contemplating scale can transform us — how it’s one thing to understand the microcosm and macrocosm through our maps and another thing entirely to really sit with the mystery of how all of this is happening at once. We can conceptually differentiate ourselves from the rest of the cosmos, but scale makes it clear that at no point do we ever...")
• 09:02, 10 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Joshua DiCaglio on Scale Theory (Created page with " Video via https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/h-15 =Description= Conversation on the '''Book: Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry. Joshua DiCalglio.''' “It’s a book bout how contemplating scale can transform us — how it’s one thing to understand the microcosm and macrocosm through our maps and another thing entirely to really sit with the mystery of how all of this is happening at once. We can conceptually differentiate ourselves from the rest of...")
• 09:00, 10 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Matthew Segal on a Participatory Approach to the Life Sciences (Created page with " Video via https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/my-biophilosophy-conference-talk =Description= “This participatory framework, exemplified in Goethe’s intuitive science, Peirce’s abductive reasoning, and Rudolf Steiner’s esoteric phenomenology, reveals evolution not as random variation under differential selection but as purposive metamorphosis guided by what Whitehead terms an immanent divine “initial aim.” The essay concludes that revitalizing the life...")
• 08:57, 10 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Against the Machine (Created page with " '''* Book: Against the Machine. Paul Kingsnorth.''' URL = https://paulkingsnorth.net/against-machine? =Description= "An account of the technological-cultural matrix enveloping all of us. The culmination of two decades of my writing and thinking about technology, culture, spirituality and politics, it seeks to offer an insight into how the techno-industrial culture that I call ‘the Machine’ has choked Western civilisation, is destroying the Earth itself, and is r...")
• 08:55, 10 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Amagi Village Podcast (Created page with " Podcast series via https://open.spotify.com/show/6KGJfBnSkoP2aPlh1vPmpT =Description= “Explores how we can redesign the village for the 21st century. Through conversations with innovators, entrepreneurs, and community builders, we document our journey of building a family-friendly eco-village in Koh Phangan, Thailand, with an intentional vision for the future of living, working, and education. Using a venture builder model, we’re experimenting our way forward, l...")
• 12:45, 9 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Max Bennet's Stages in the Evolution of Multicellular Animals vs Valentin Turchin's Metasystem Transitions (Created page with " =Discussion= Francis Heilighen: I recently finished a book that I consider required reading for all those interested in cognition and evolution. For once, all the superlatives (“Amazing”, “Fabulous”, …) by famous scientists on the book blurb are truly deserved! The author, Max Bennett, is a young neuroscience and AI researcher. He did a formidable job synthesizing the results of hundreds of often highly technical papers and books in such diverse disciplines...")
• 12:43, 9 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Brief History of Intelligence (Created page with " '''* Book: Bennett, Max S. (2023). A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains. Mariner Books.''' =Discussion= Francis Heilighen: I recently finished a book that I consider required reading for all those interested in cognition and evolution. For once, all the superlatives (“Amazing”, “Fabulous”, …) by famous scientists on the book blurb are truly deserved! The author, Max Bennett, is a young neuroscienc...")
• 12:35, 9 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Research on Social innovation for Biodiversity (Created page with " '''* Article: Social innovation for biodiversity: A literature review and research challenges. By Rafael Ziegler, Josephine Balzac-Arroyo, et al. Ecological Economics, Vol 193 | March 2022.''' URL = https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800921003955 = ummary= ‘There are calls for social innovation to help with the effort to halt biodiversity loss. However, research on social innovation and biodiversity is dispersed and covers a multitude of...")
• 12:32, 9 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ann Brody on Organizational Culture in the Ethereum Ecosystem (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxQiUzUrGFQ Category:Crypto Governance Category:Webcasts ")
• 12:23, 9 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Constitutional Monarchy (Created page with " =Discussion= ==Advantages== Lipton Matthews: "Calls to become a republic tend to frame the monarchy as a colonial remnant whose time has passed. This narrative is emotionally compelling but often overlooks the specific institutional benefits that constitutional monarchies offer. Jamaica, like other Commonwealth countries that retain the monarch as head of state, operates under a system that has provided political stability, symbolic unity, and continuity of governanc...")
• 14:24, 8 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Blockchain-Based Verification Systems (Created page with " =Typology= Benjamin Life: ==Global Impact Markets: Aggregating Contextual Attestations== "The emergence of Blockchain-Based Verification Systems creates possibilities for what economist Mariana Mazzucato might term "markets shaping" rather than just market-taking—intentionally designing market infrastructures that recognize and reward public value creation. These systems can create what might be called "attestation markets" where contextual impact claims become...")
• 14:24, 8 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Contextual Attestations of Value Creation (Created page with " =Typology= Benjamin Life: ==Global Impact Markets: Aggregating Contextual Attestations== "The emergence of Blockchain-Based Verification Systems creates possibilities for what economist Mariana Mazzucato might term "markets shaping" rather than just market-taking—intentionally designing market infrastructures that recognize and reward public value creation. These systems can create what might be called "attestation markets" where contextual impact claims become...")
• 14:19, 8 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Commons-Based Peer Production System for Capital Allocation (Created page with " =Discussion= Benjamin Life: "The transition from theoretical frameworks to implemented systems requires attention to what sociologist Bruno Latour terms "translation"—the process by which abstract ideas become concrete sociotechnical arrangements. This translation process involves several interconnected components: '''Ontological engineering'''. Developing formal taxonomies of value that can be computationally represented and operated upon. This involves collaborat...")
• 14:13, 8 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Self-Definition in Impact Measurement (Created page with " =Description= Benjamin Life: "Traditional impact measurement typically imposes external frameworks on communities, reflecting what anthropologist James Scott termed "seeing like a state"—rendering complex social realities legible to distant authorities. In contrast, emerging approaches emphasize what scholars Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang call "refusal"—communities' right to define impact on their own terms. ... These approaches transform impact measurement from a...")