[NetBehaviour] Worldbuilding Thread (Horses)
Edward Picot
julian.lesaux at gmail.com
Thu Jul 1 20:12:25 CEST 2021
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 at lists.netbehaviour.org
> <mailto:netbehaviour at 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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