I find this incredibly chilling > It is all just incentives. >
Bad Shibe manifested a similar world but all the cute jokes, along with suggestions of more-than-human agency (even if the agent was perhaps a living meme), somehow softened it. https://rhea.art/bad-shibe Its a good call to conjure the cold implacable world of economic-incentives-only - and strip it bare - so we can really see what we are dealing with. Bravo! On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 7:13 PM Edward Picot via NetBehaviour < netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > Seconded! I had to read it twice before I started to understand it. > There's an epic science fiction novel in here. > > On 30/06/2021 07:46, Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour wrote: > > Thank you for this strange and beautiful story Rhea > > On Tue, 29 Jun 2021, 22:48 Rhea Myers via NetBehaviour, < > netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > >> https://twitter.com/rheaplex/status/1402443000454672384 >> >> The RAFFLE Act (Retreat Away From Flood Level Elevations) mandated >> withdrawing from rather than fighting rising sea levels. It bankrupted >> entire cities and made landowners in the “RAFFLE Belt” into trillionares. >> As a legal dodge, all property by the sea was declared to be $1. >> >> These properties were were purchased by funds that mixed them with >> property far inland and sold them as bundles, showing a massive profit. >> Until various DAOs bought the bundles using flash loans, broke them up, and >> sold the prime land for an even higher profit. >> >> The DAOs held on to the junk properties, ostensibly to save the gas fees >> (which were more than the properties were worth). But then asteroid mining >> started. Asteroids were aerobraked onto the planet and mined by cheap human >> labour rather than expensive offworld robots. >> >> Aerobraking a planet-smasher dumps ridiculous amounts of ash, soot, and >> grit into the atmosphere. Which reduces the sunlight that hits the Earth’s >> surface. Which cools it. Suddenly the oceans weren’t going to rise as high. >> >> So the DAOs holding junk properties were suddenly quintillionaires. They >> cut up submerged buildings and glued them together on the newly high land >> and undercut RAFFLE Belt landlords. The RAFFLE Zones became vibrant >> economic and cultural hubs. >> >> The other thing that cutting out the sun and hitting the planet with the >> force of a frat party of Tsar Bombas does is to make bits of the planet >> where nobody and nothing important lives uninhabitable. Some of the RAFFLE >> DAOS were Deodands, onchain land and wildlife proxies. And this left them >> understandably angry. With their newfound wealth they could incentivize >> those humans plugged directly in onchain to do something about it. From >> ecoterrorism to mass protests to rituals of morning. Those ridden by any >> DAO in this way are known as “horses”, a piece of classic cyberpunk >> cultural appropriation. Over time as action and protest failed, all that >> was left for the deodands were the horses of mourning rituals. The >> superstars of the deep anthropocene, the fame and incentives for their >> inhuman performances unimaginable. >> >> And yet however many APUs the deodands spin up to embody their grief they >> do not understand it’s subjectivity. One of them has a plan to address >> this. If there are any ethical problems with the plan, the deodand cannot >> see them. And therefore they do not exist for it. >> >> It is all just incentives. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing > listNetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.orghttps://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- Ruth Catlow she/her Co-founder & Artistic director of Furtherfield & DECAL Decentralised Arts Lab +44 (0) 77370 02879 *I will only agree to speak at events that are racially and gender balanced. **sending thanks <https://www.ovoenergy.com/ovo-newsroom/press-releases/2019/november/think-before-you-thank-if-every-brit-sent-one-less-thank-you-email-a-day-we-would-save-16433-tonnes-of-carbon-a-year-the-same-as-81152-flights-to-madrid.html> in advance *Furtherfield *disrupts and democratises art and technology through exhibitions, labs & debate, for deep exploration, open tools & free thinking. furtherfield.org <http://www.furtherfield.org/> *DECAL* Decentralised Arts Lab is an arts, blockchain & web 3.0 technologies research hub for fairer, more dynamic & connected cultural ecologies & economies now. decal.is <http://www.decal.is> Furtherfield is a Not-for-Profit Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in England and Wales under the Company No.7005205. 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