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So I suppose being able to memorise and then replicate it? That's not bad. I was thinking along the lines of knowing about a joke where Taylor Swift lyrics were attributed to Mark Twain (for example) would violate Tay tay's moral right of attribution, and that could happen by simply knowing the joke.

I think this is less corruption and more vanity. There are a lot of charitable organisations out there who will routinely donate over a million dollars. They'll get a hospital wing or entrance or statue or something named after them. I think compared to those charities, open hand is incredibly small.

My guess is their strategy was to do a bulk donation to get some kind of recognition for their mum. They were probably hoping they'd have much larger sums in a shorter time, and then time just kept on going.

The problem is, that would have been fine if it was their money they were doing this with, but they're doing these shenanigans with other people's money, and now open hand is probably done for as a charity.

Putting aside apocalyptic cli-fi, Solarpunk specifically and optimistic cli-fi is meant to keep the same space as hard sci-fi, the kind of imaginative work which spurs budding scientists with new ideas, just as cyberpunk did for computers or space sci-fi did for space research. There was optimism about a possible future world, and we largely built it.

I just think the "direct action" the writer talks about is fighting against something, not fighting towards something, and the latter is what we need.

Mia Mulder did a video I'm just going to link that.

IMO silos are even more important with small farms and crop rotation. Imagine a silo is shared by the community, and they co-ordinate rotations so that the silo continues to get filled as is it used. Not only does this make society resilient to bad years, but also individual harvests. The silo also discourages accounting, so it's whatever the community can produce and whatever they need.

Art Nouveau is specifically mentioned in the Manifesto. I think it's a great choice, but one should be a little bit careful. If we look at the goals of Art

• Function should define form. (the idea of reducing waste)
• Unity of the arts and the abolition of any distinction between major art (architecture) and minor arts (decorative arts). (this ties really well to ideas like 3d Printing, or "personalised" production)
• Nature's logic is the model to be used for architecture. (this ties really well to the idea that AI or simulation to optimise materials take on very natural forms)
• Architecture should adapt itself to man's environment and needs. (Interplay between environment and humanity)
• Use of modern technologies and materials. (Jugaad, appropriate technology, etc)

The danger though is that it can look a bit bourgeoise if applied without thought. You kind of have to put yourself in the seat of someone sitting in the future sort of "re-inventing" art-nouveau. What would that look like? When we talk about material and form, or when we talk about "major" and "minor" arts, how do they connect? How would major artists express their craft? There's almost a question of the feminine and Feminism here as well. How does society express itself when womanhood is further emancipated?

Mom's gonna fix it all soon.

the King could very well go through Martha, that everyone loves, because “she doesn’t do politics”.

What do you mean "go through"? You mean Martha would just do the King a favour by asking everyone for cakes and things? And Martha would do this because??? Remember the King needs to do this at scale, so eventually I think people would get sick of Martha asking for everything all the time.

the threat of violence was there

Yes, that's what I said, but the king needs some way to be a middleman between soldiers and cake. Otherwise the soldiers can just be warlords. Yeah, kings do try on the whole "we are ordained by god" or whatever, but I think the only thing which sticks is the knife.

Money starts being necessary at the scale where you do not know all the people

"necessary" would imply that it would exist without the king, which is not the case. Not knowing the people means not knowing the context. My whole point is: "The point of money is to remove context from the equation". It doesn't matter that my flour is from slavers. Money launders the context. The only people who actively want to do this are bad people.

They don’t do it through money (if we talk actual slavery) but through weapons, whips and chains

Err no, they do it through money? Almost all slavery today happens through a debt.You could call the debt "made up" or whatever, but the intent of the debt is to claim that the slave could theoretically pay it off and then they are free. It's not an equal contract.

Money only has the purpose of exploitation, it is only a proxy for violence. If you didn't have to pay your debts, then how exactly would a monetary system work?

I think a lot of arguments put money at the root. The point of money is to remove context from the equation. The example is:

• I will bake you a cake because I like you, but
• I will not bake a cake for the king because fuck that guy.
• Oh wait he's threatening to kill me.
• The king is annoyed that he has to threaten to kill everyone all the time.
• King invents money and taxes. Now he only threatens people who don't pay tax
• He has money so he can ask baker to make him a cake.
• Baker now has no option. Money is effectively a proxy to violence
• Baker has to buy cheaper flour from his enemies across the river
• Enemies across the river get flour from slave labour and profit massively
• Globalisation.

So, money is the tool, yes, but it's also how the king can be completely evil and get away with it. Being evil in non-fungible, but you can turn that into money, which is fungible.

some of the works that have been published by by you in this field, it looks to me more as though mainly the thing is kind of a neat format that is a good way of exchanging ideas about programming, and that part is working very well, but these other two dimensions: the moral capacity to produce a living structure and the generativity of the thing that is its its capability of producing coherent holes; I haven't seen very much evidence yet of those two things

Wow. He murdered an entire field.

No lie I have to pause this video at nearly every sentence and ponder the implications. Mind-blowing stuff.

I think people who use spotify have probably hurt artists more than hurting spotify could ever hurt them.