Re: [NetBehaviour] Worldbuilding Thread (Horses)

[Rhea Myers via NetBehaviour]

Oh yikes things got busy busy busy and I just found this in my must-
reply file.

Bad Shibe is meant to be troubling and humorous to both its imagined
constituencies. It is bathetic. Horses is more unipolar, and has a
Gibsonian “the world ended and capital just carried on” vibe.

There’s a style in it called “camp”, because it comes from the camps.
And there may or may not be triple-E’s. And there is a prop manufacturer
who meets some extraction attack lawyers. And… Its become a bit of an
attractor for story elements. I’ve written very little of it down, it’s
writing and editing itself in the back of my mind whenever I go for a
walk…

On July 1, 2021, NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
 wrote:
> 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. 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
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> Seconded! I had to read it twice before I started to understand it.
> There's an epic science fiction novel in here.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Worldbuilding Thread (Horses)

[Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour]

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.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Worldbuilding Thread (Horses)

[Edward Picot via NetBehaviour]

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, 
> 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.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Worldbuilding Thread (Horses)

[Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour]

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.
>
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[NetBehaviour] Worldbuilding Thread (Horses)

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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.
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