On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 7:45 AM Suresh Ramasubramanian via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote:
> The last popup city I heard of was an attempt to recreate Galt’s Gulch, > and that failed beause of .. bears. > > > > Sometimes it is just the case that everywhere that is habitable to any > extent is already inhabited, and to a much larger extent depending on just > how habitable a place is (all the usual factors, employment, public > transport, schools and what not in the area). > Back when I lived in Australia, on road trips I would drive through these hollowed out towns in the interior (The Bush). They were once thriving towns populated with hundreds of people with a town center, but have become reduced (through a crash in some extractive economic activity, de-growth of population, or urban migration) to populations ranging from zero to a dozen people. A small handful of them have, in recent years, become revitalised with refugees/immigrants moving in (starting ethnic grocery stores, restaurants, schools, doing service jobs, ....) I can imagine such a town being an ideal location for a pop-up village. Thaths > > > Where would such a popup city be located and how / where is it going to > exist in a vacuum? Outside an old west, Ayn Rand or Heinlein story, that > is. > > > > --srs > > > > *From: *Silklist <[email protected]> > on behalf of Huda Masood via Silklist <[email protected]> > *Date: *Thursday, 7 November 2024 at 8:42 PM > *To: *Intelligent conversation <[email protected]> > *Cc: *Huda Masood <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [Silk] Exploring pop-up villages: A hello from Berlin > > I forgot to reply to this :) > > Guten Tag zurück aus Bonn! > > Your email made me reach out to another friend/now acquaintance who was > interested in designing Life - for himself and others. It morphed into > another monster altogether but his vision remains the same. > > I'm intrigued by the idea of 'building weak ties' (see reference to > friend/now acquaintance above). And ALLFED sounds very very cool. I hope > you are thriving and happy there. > > After reading the links you provided and the questions you asked, I'm left > with a vague sense of unease - one that makes this feel cultish. I would > like to sit with this feeling to analyze why I am uneasy. Bryan Johnson and > his Bloodboy, referenced in part by Vitalik in the Zuzalu article, play a > large part. Cults get a bad rep, we're all cultish to some extent. But this > set off alarm bells. > > > Tell me, what do you want to be made possible with pop up cities like > this? What impact would snowball in 5, 10, 20 years to make a change that > sprouted from a pop up city? > > I ride motorcycles for pleasure and travel extensively with them, > sometimes with bigger groups and sometimes as solo as solo can get. I > notice that bigger groups consume tremendous amounts of resources, wield a > disproportionate chunk of negotiating and buying power and leave a mess in > their wake for the people, who live in the space long term, to clean up. > Maybe it's just motorcyclists. Or buses full of tourists. Or .. what the > Goans are currently groaning about the influx of the part time Delhi and > Noida population that skewed economics for the native populations. > > Thank you for the mental workout :) > > Ich freue mich, von dir wieder zu hören. > > Huda > > On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 at 13:45, Yeshodhara B via Silklist < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hello fellow Silklisters, (not sure if that is the right name, but has a > nice ring to it) > > Guten Tag! > It’s an absolute pleasure to be here and part of this awesome community. > Thank you for having me here Udhay :) > > A quick intro—I'm Yesh. I was born in Bangalore, but Berlin is home now. > I'm someone who's pro-humanity and a techno-optimist but with a dash of > healthy pessimism (keeps things interesting!). I’m constantly asking: how > do we help humanity not just survive, but truly thrive in the long term? > > By day, I work as a project manager at ALLFED <http://ALLFED.info>, where > we focus on global food resilience (preparing for events that could take > out 10% or more of the global food supply—think nuclear winter or other fun > apocalyptic scenarios). By night, I channel my engineering and physics > background into designing hyper-stable structures for satellite > <https://www.eumetsat.int/meteosat-third-generation> applications. > > For the past 8 months, I’ve been working on something a bit more > experimental and communal—ZuGrama <http://zugrama.org>. It’s a pop-up > village in India that I’m co-building with another fellow Silklister, Dr. > Anish Mohammed. Think of it as a place where the world’s brightest > minds—scientists, engineers, cryptographers, builders—don’t just work > together but live together, collaborate deeply, and push the boundaries of > what’s possible. It’s inspired by Zuzalu > <https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/10/06/why-i-built-zuzalu/> (which > Vitalik Buterin kicked off), and it pulls from Balaji’s concept of network > states. It feels like the right time for these kinds of experiments, with > similar projects popping up in other corners of the world — 1 > <https://balajis.com/p/network-school>, 2 <https://vitalia.city/>. > > What are your thoughts on pop-up villages or these “networked state” > concepts? Do they excite you? If you could be part of one, what kind of > experiences would you want to have? > > Looking forward to diving into some awesome conversations with you all! > > Best, Yesh > > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist > > > > > -- > > Huda Masood > +91 9886796967 > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist > -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo!
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