David Ding: Regeneration
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David Ding: Regeneration
The Nature of a Hive
Join me as I delve into the fascinating nature of a hive and how it can teach us to create over-unity systems for human beings, with a focus on self-regulation and autonomy.
I also explore the potential of a hive-based economy to revolutionises the concept of universal basic income, providing unconditional access to resources that ensure the survival of each individual in perpetuity and harnessing the power of trust and collaboration while maintaining autonomy and individual sovereignty.
Lastly, I explore the future of hive mind technology and how it could impact our traditional economy and how we can approach the challenges of working with regulators in the crypto space.
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Okay. So this one is about the nature of a hive and the context I want to look at this through is pertaining to a hive as an economy and is something really quite profound in terms of the way that it self-regulates, produces a surplus, holds reserves, self-organises and really holds a lot of hidden keys to how human beings can create, you know, over unity systems, systems that create a surplus, but specifically systems that will fail unless the component parts cooperate and collaborate, and the uniqueness of a hive, the thing that I love about it the most is that access to the reserves, access to what's held in reserve, it's unconditional, so the care of the individual components within the hive is assured and guaranteed as long as they are capable of helping themselves. That's absolutely crucial to understand because there are components. You know there is a mechanism within a hive for, you know, promoting the strength of the gene pool. You know, in terms of when it comes to breeding and things like that Quite fascinating in fact, how they breed and the competition for breeding and things like that.
Speaker 1:But the aspect of it that I think is profoundly underrated is the content. You know, i think a lot of people write it off because they see the hive as a singularity that is controlling the agents. But in truth, those agents are autonomous. They're entirely autonomous, they're entirely sovereign, they're entirely free, but, and so they're separate and sovereign. However, they have a singularity of purpose. That singularity of purpose is for the hive to thrive, for it to survive, for it to have adequate reserves so that there's more than enough for everyone to survive. And when you bring a hive into the context of a beekeeper, this is where it's really profound, and this is this is, to me, what completes this the circle in that the beekeeper understands the economy of the hive and takes, if there's a stagnating surplus or if there's too much of a surplus or too much held in reserve, then the beekeeper understands how much that it can be, how much honey can be taken out without threatening the survival of the hive and ensuring that it can continue being a wealth generating vehicle. And so here you have the ideal structure for an economy whereby there's a unified intended purpose. It's perpetually wealth generating. The way that it organizes itself, it's self-organizing. But there's no competition for survival. The survival is guaranteed as long as they figure out between themselves how to cooperate and coordinate and collaborate for the betterment of the hive. Now this is absolutely essential. This is absolutely essential. Without cooperation and collaboration. Then, and there is competition. Remember, there is competition, but they're not competing for survival, they're competing for opportunities to go beyond And this is what's critically important.
Speaker 1:So, in context of the hive, a lot of people dismiss it as a legitimate vehicle because they assume that there's a queen and you relate this to the crown in New Zealand The queen representing the crown with ultimate authority. But that's actually not the case. There's a massive dependency on the queen. But if you were to personify the queen in context of a human economy, the queen would represent the issuer, the queen would represent the issuer. So in our formal economy now, the issuer being a central bank and in a hive, the issuer is the queen. Now, in context of the queen, the rest of the hive worshipping the queen.
Speaker 1:The perspective that I can see is that that role of the queen, in terms of being the commander of the hive, is that authority is imbued into a constitution that is shared by everybody involved, and this is where you have perfect harmony of unity and separation cooperation, collaboration, consolidated intent, unified intent, distributed authority. It's a perfect ternary system And I talk about this a lot to separate, the disentangling of the powers, the disentangling of the will of each individual component part so that they have an individual voice, and then the unifying of that voice to create the constitution and then the intentional, the willful adherence to the constitution. This is how you honor the sovereignty of everybody involved. And there you have the perfected over unity system, the perfect ternary system, perpetually wealth generating. All growth and enhancement to the hive comes from a surplus, never from a deficit. The survival of every component part is guaranteed, unconditionally, obligation free. And when there's an over yield or where there's an over abundance, because abundance is not beneficial in a wealth generating system, there has to be the abundance has to be dependent upon cooperation and collaboration. So the incentive to create diversity and interdependency And you have perpetual wealth. So it is a state of abundance but it is lack is an accepted truth of that system.
Speaker 1:And the beekeeper when there is surplus, when there's an over yield, then the beekeeper, then there is a donation made to the beekeeper. It's not willful on the part of the bees, i'm sure, but nonetheless it's. And this is the vehicle I've always seen, you know, in my own over unity systems that I've designed where there is an over yield. When there is stagnant surplus, it is devoted to obligation, free, so that it can nourish some other part of the system, a greater part of the system. But in truth, ideally it would be to spawn another hive, and I'm not sure whether this is actually how it happens with the bees, but I'm sure this is what happens when they outgrow a hive And when there is a surplus that then it's used you know there may be a few of each of the hive utilize the surplus to go and begin a new hive.
Speaker 1:So this is when you view the structure of the hive, the framework for the hive. It's immutable, it's inherent structure, the DNA of the hive is immutable, but the genius of it is that the aspects of it that are immutable enable it to be perpetually mutable form And for each individual agent within the hive to have total autonomy. And the uniqueness of the role and the gifts of each individual bee are symbiotic and interdependently. And it's brilliant. It's brilliant.
Speaker 1:So let's look at the scenario of if we were to copy this template and paste it And let's say we were going to form a new economy based on the hive concept. Now, we don't want to worship a queen And we don't want to be dependent on the queen. So what we do is we decentralize that authority And so we decentralize the authority of the queen. I'm not saying to do this for the queen in the real world, but what I'm saying is, if you were to form a self-reliant economy, you would decentralize the authority to the individual bees, to each individual human being. They would express their intent and they would formulate a constitution, and that constitution then becomes an authority that they've delegated their agency to, that they can revoke at any time. But they've come together and said this is our unified intended purpose. I'm choosing to abide by these collective rules that we've all made together And these are the laws that govern us, and this is a role that our queen has now, and she delegates that agency to the judicial system and the government of New Zealand, and so it is delegated largely by the crown, as it is now. Thank you for your time. So in that scenario, you have a co-created constitution, but you need to disentangle the component of it that is the issuer.
Speaker 1:The issuer of the abundance You know and I love the fact that honey is the colour of gold because it's a great symbol for you know the reserves And so the issuer in this scenario can quite easily be a blockchain with a native cryptocurrency. If you were to create one new from scratch. As long as everyone agrees that that is the de facto standard currency, you can determine its value. That doesn't mean you're going to be able to exchange it for other currencies. However, if everyone agrees that this is the standard by which we're going to facilitate the exchange, then it can work, because the reason the reserves held in a hive to feed the hive, the reason they're so, the reason that works so well, is because honey is ubiquitous, it can feed everyone and it can feed everybody. It's got everything that the hive needs, is held in reserves and it can be utilised and to keep them alive, and so there needs to be a singularity in terms of one thing that is capable of nourishing everybody that's ubiquitous like honey, and so we've used the gold standard in the past.
Speaker 1:We're seeing Bitcoin now being used as like digital gold and Layer 2 solutions, utilising Bitcoin to back their currency, because the beauty of Bitcoin, the way that it's structured, is that it's finite in the same way that gold is. You can deplete the earth of all of its gold reserves, and so the more that comes to the surface of the earth, comes out of the earth, the less there is inside it, although, of course, it is regenerating to a certain degree, however. So if you look at this in the context of an economy structured in this way, then you want to structure a cryptocurrency that serves as reserves That can be exchanged for anything, and then you can have other means of exchange. You can have other things that are traded on top of that, but backed by it, but there has to be a penultimate, native, primary means of reserve, like the honey. So if we come together and collectively decide, you know, currently you could say that's Bitcoin, arguably, but unfortunately there are limitations in terms of the technology that prevents it from having as much utility as it could.
Speaker 1:Nonetheless, if you were starting from scratch, this would be the ideal way to do it, and you know from I have a hypothesis that is yet to be tested in terms of mimicking gold inside the earth, because gold is regenerating. You know the earth is constantly regenerating, so everything is. If we were to just leave it, leave the earth as it is now, it would regenerate gold. It would be producing more gold. I'm sure there'd be a homeostasis level whereby you know it's going to stop at some point, but it'll be because of the depletion of some other dependency gold has in order to continue regenerating. So, and I believe that figure is 1.5% It's just a hypothesis, you know, it's a human trying to quantize something organic. So 1.5% compounding is the growth of gold in the earth, and so what we're saying is that there is finite supply of gold, but it is compounding at a rate of 1.5% year on year And we use that as a starting point.
Speaker 1:Now, in context of the hive holding adequate reserves to ensure the survival of the agents within the hive, of the bees within the hive, then there has to be obligation, free, unconditional. If you need to eat, then you can eat, and the fact that it's available in abundance means that people don't treat it like it's scarce. And this would be the equivalent of a universal basic income. But here's the thing You eat from it when you need to eat from it, and I think this is one of the beautiful things about a hive is that you feed yourself. If you're hungry, then it's there and you can eat. And you know human beings are very. You know we're miles away from this kind of ethos, even a universal basic income. You know we're kind of. You know, i think the main structure that I'm most interested in with a universal basic income is that it's a regular payment that's paid to everybody, that's so that it feeds all of the cells, so that it's spreading a minimum baseline level of wealth that will ensure the survival of every component part. And you know that's probably the ideal starting point.
Speaker 1:However, someone that already has surplus wealth, you know, and they've kind of got, they've generated so much surplus that they've almost been able to create their own hive within the hive. There's no point of them drawing more that. It just doesn't make any sense. So it's an opt-in thing If you need it, you can eat from it, and if you don't need it, then you opt out. That's the most efficient way for it to work.
Speaker 1:So the role of the issuer You know the queen bee, her power and authority has been disentangled into a co-created constitution from the ground up that everyone willingly chooses to abide by. And the role of the issuer is autonomous. It's autonomous, it's been purposefully designed to serve as a digital goal, immutable goal that is finite but also compounding. You know that's the ternary perspective. There's finite supply but it is compounding over time And you have the ideal mechanism and framework for a digital economy. And the reason this works? the reason this works is because this currency, the issuing of this currency at the moment, bitcoin requires mining.
Speaker 1:Whether it's proof of stake, proof of work, you know, it doesn't really matter. It's the behaviour that's being incentivised to create reserves that matters, that's what matters. And so, in that scenario, when you think about it, what is the behaviour that we do want, what is the behaviour that we want to incentivise to ensure there are adequate reserves? And let's use honey as an example. Let's say we have a hive, it's thriving, but the environment it was in, where the nectar was being drawn from its environment, then what happens if its external environment? let's say, there's a forest fire and the hive is intact, but there's no nectar, and so its reserves are depleted over time and it's going to run out. What is the behaviour that you want to incentivise that will build up those reserves again, but it still enables each individual agent, each individual bee, to be autonomous, self-organising. Then you want the incentive to be encouraging co-operation and collaboration in a self-organising way, co-operation and collaboration in a self-organising, autonomous way, so that it incentivises the entire hive to work together to solve the problem in their own way.
Speaker 1:There's no directive. The constitution is still the same. The framework is immutable. There's no one telling an individual what they have to do. There's no one telling an individual thou shalt not other than what's in the constitution. They're free agents, but in order to survive they have to come together, they have to self-organise, they have to figure out what each other's gifts are and understand the uniqueness of each other individual and entrust that individual to fulfil their role.
Speaker 1:It forces a leap of faith and this is a massive issue in the human world is we're constantly trying to run our lives with a zero risk profile because we're so, we fear loss so greatly that we're not prepared to take the risk. We're not prepared to take the leap of faith and trust someone to do the job in the way that we want them to do it, that if they follow their nature, it's going to fulfil our will, that I'm gonna thrive because of it. We have zero trust, whereas the hive, the beehive you haven't got a soldier telling the queen what to do, how to be the queen and vice versa. They defer the authority to the one that who is most capable and they entrust that person wholly. And this is why you see, in nature, schools of fish. They're free agents.
Speaker 1:Each fish is a free agent. It's following its own nature but because it trusts the signals it's receiving from its environment, it's trusting its interpretation, it's trusting its thoughts. Then it has surrendered to the meaning and when it surrenders, by default, they all operate in symmetry. You realise that a school of fish is a hive. You realise that a pot of dolphins I don't know if you've seen dolphins, you know down the side of a boat, while you're in the water, as you're zooming along, you can see them, the grace like they follow their nature. They're so surrendered to following their nature to such a degree that they move in perfect unison and perfect harmony and the symmetry is quite sublime A flock of birds, a murmuration of starlings moving together as one, but just following their own nature. And then, magically, they realise they're part of something much bigger, something much greater, something much more intelligent, that we have it again, the ternary perspective that they are sovereign, autonomous and free and unified. And this is the genius of ternary And once human beings can create for themselves the same scenario within which we have the confidence to trust each other, meaning that there are adequate reserves that mean that give me the confidence in being prepared to lose what I'm risking, that by risking what I want to invest in transacting, i'm wholly prepared to lose it and to fail.
Speaker 1:Why? Because there are adequate reserves, because it's not going to impact the quality of my life if it fails. Because if you breach my trust, or if you make a mistake, or if you're not who I thought you were, or if you get hit by a bus, it doesn't matter, because I was prepared to lose what I put in. And that confidence can only come from adequate guaranteed reserves. That's it. And so here we have a blueprint for a perpetually wealth generating vehicle, but built on a hive, with decentralized authority that's then consolidated to create a unified antenna purpose in the form of a constitution.
Speaker 1:Some of you know that I've developed a framework for this based on a. it's called a living will. A living will is a directive. It's most commonly used for when people, if they become severely disabled, then you can use a living will to express your will. if you become incapacitated, so you might say if I do become a holy crippled, then and I'm on life support I want the machine to be turned off. But a living will can be, especially if you constitute it in common law, as the commander of your vessel, of your body, which is the agent. If you constitute that in common law stands above statute, stands above statute law And so it's immutable, it's impervious to statutory legislation, to regulation, stands above, and that's how you can create something immutable. And the technology exists to protect and preserve this kind of principle, asset and perpetuity. If you constitute a living will in common law, it is impervious to being imposed upon by any statutory law or legislation or regulation. And this is why I'm urging regulators to come aboard and start collaborating sooner rather than later, because this, when economies begin trading in common law, when, when exchange begins to be facilitated in common law, it stands above everything that's in place now, absolutely everything.
Speaker 1:And you know, whilst people will be prepared to take on board the risk themselves because of the potential rewards that it's, you know there's a significant amount of risk involved And you know a human being has the power to transfer the stewardship of the assets that they are owners of under statute. They have the power to transition those into the custody of the natural person that they are in the common law And that can become immutable. You see, and this is why you know a common law trust is, you know, the safest place to transfer the stewardship of any asset into, because under common law, it's based on possession. You can possess something and but your the power you hold is the obligation to protect and preserve it, because it's it's just going to go back into the earth at some time. You can't truly own something in common law as a natural person, and then we use statute to create imaginary concepts like ownership, which is it's not real, it's just temporary custody of something before it goes into the earth, before it's reconstituted into something else. So all this technology exists right now And, as an innovation strategist and advisor currently working for the New Zealand Government Agency, callahan Innovation, i work with a handful of founders at the bleeding edge of innovation, particularly in the space of AI, web3 and digital, and I can tell you that what's coming is will never be foreseen by regulators.
Speaker 1:The nature of the technology is going to be so profound that it will literally become a hive mind that operates like this, whereby the issuer in the context that I spoke of with the Queen Bee there will be a centralized issuer and there will also be the user will also be the issuer of their own currency. So you'll have the reserve currency issued by a centralized issuer to mimic gold and to act as a reserve as reserves, and it's ubiquitous And then the individual user will be able to have their own hive within the greater hive and issue their own layer two currency backed by the principle currency backed by the principle means of reserve, and in that scenario, you're the issuer of a currency with your own hive. That technology means that you can have your own blockchain And that blockchain is capable of cross chain transactions. Now, this won't mean a lot to some of you. Now, if your principal constitution or your assets are protected immutably via common law meaning they stand above statute and you delegate authority and agency through assets that are in statute for example, a smart contract that contains the rights to commercialize an asset that is immutably protected and preserved in common law, it's impervious, it's truly immutable and it can take on perpetually mutable form.
Speaker 1:This is where sovereignty is heading. You know, regulation will be a choice. A human being will have a decision on which standard they want to operate under. Some will be more seductive than others. They'll understand that under common law, they have the power to revoke their authority from a particular agency to who are empowered to regulate, and they know that they'll have potentially a vast array of different standards that they can choose to meet and abide by. And if a new one comes up that's better and even safer and abues more trust, then they'll revoke that authority and then defer it to an agency with even better standards, which makes their reputation greater and higher. This is so close, this technology so close, and it's happening in New Zealand. And this technology is what will enable hive mind swarms digital autonomous agents controlling physical autonomous agents. So the hive is where all this is heading And the key to it is to understand that you have to take a ternary perspective.
Speaker 1:There has to be a singularity And when I talk about the co-created constitution, that needs to be a smart contract, needs to be constituted in common law, have a unified intent of purpose that everyone willingly chooses to bond with and abide by. It's found in a common law so that it stands above statute. That smart contract contains the intelligence, the collective, centralized singularity of the intelligence of all of the autonomous agents, of all the users in a singularity in a pool. And because it's in a collective pool, it needs to be in a state of pre-interpretation. So it's just the pool of all of the collective wisdom of every agent. And then the intelligence layer is owned by the autonomous agent. It's on their phone, using a cold wallet system. It's in their hive and they can provide access to that through permission. They can choose whether or not they want their culture, their intelligence, their intelligence, behavior to be absorbed by the unified whole. It's done based on permission Permission to another company, permission to the unified whole, rights to commercialize it And it all takes place in common law, immutable. It stands above statute, and this is really the hive mind structure. It's really based on geospatial AI And this is where we're seeing the birth of.
Speaker 1:You've seen the new hardware that's. Apple have announced their spatial AR VR goggles And the spatial web will emerge out of this technology. Now imagine now that technology is serverless. Serverless because it's so efficient because your smartphone is running your blockchain node. It's using the storage on your phone to store information. It is using the CPU on the phone to process transactions And it's viewing the phone and the digital agent contained on it as the node. So if you switch it off, you can unplug yourself from the matrix at will Turn it on, plug it back in And you know, instead of if you have, if you have a wallet and it's you've accumulated a lot of wealth on that phone you can switch the phone off, Unplug it from the matrix and then lock it in a safe.
Speaker 1:Now this is where the technology is heading And, believe me, there are people thinking even way beyond it than that, but beyond this, where it could potentially go. But the important thing is is for regulators especially is to you have to foresee the path where this is headed. And globally at the moment, the banks are withdrawing their support from crypto companies by the droves, and so it's becoming increasingly more challenging for a crypto based company to have a bank account. Now, this is not the way to approach it, because there are there are so many founders in this space who already have immensely disruptive technology who are choosing to show a duty of care by trying to work with regulators. They're actually they know that they don't have to ask permission for the regulators. They know this, but the regulators don't have the foresight to see what they're talking about. It's too. It sounds too radical, but it's only the goodness and the duty of care to do no harm of the individual. That's preventing this disruption from happening now, and so you know I heard the news of you know there's been a venture I've been following for quite a while called unbanked, and they're on a mission in a crusade to target the unbanked people of the world with a way for them to transact, and without having access to a bank account.
Speaker 1:Now their intention was to work with regulators to collaborate, but regulators are not prepared to allow any harm to come. So zero risk profile, even despite the potential rewards of having tens of millions of people who are currently unable to participate in the formal economy all of a sudden being able to participate. So even in that scenario, the risk versus reward is too great for them to adopt and embrace ventures like unbanked. Now that's not good enough. So unbanked is winding down, it's going to shut its doors. It was right in the middle of a raise. I think they had a term sheet with a $20 million US capital raise And they've now said you need to take all of your assets out because we're about to begin a wind down.
Speaker 1:Now I think of the unified intent of the community building that they're trying to. They're trying to empower the unbanked of the world And they're trying to work with regulators to you know, begin the process of creating something that works for everyone, with no one left behind, and they failed. So this is that's not going to. It's not going to wash, it's not going to wash.
Speaker 1:So you know, if you are a regulator and you're listening to this, i strongly encourage you reach out and wrap your head around what's happening as soon as you can, because founders and bleeding edge innovators are becoming very, very, very frustrated, very frustrated with the lack of sophistication, very frustrated with the lack of foresight, very frustrated with how slow the process is, and what I'm predicting is that their patience is going to run out because, because of the technology available now and how it's possible to create a viable means of exchange founded in common law that stands above regulation, it's a willful choice they're making to collaborate to prevent harm as much as they can, but that's not going to last, i'm certain of it.
Speaker 1:So how can we come together and design a sandbox and that is based on the structure lean into it? How can we willfully appoint the regulators that exist now, who are the most, who have the most expertise, to be able to oversee a sandbox built on this framework, so that we can usher this in together and absorb and assimilate it into the way we do things now. Because if, if you just keep saying no and putting up brick walls to prevent harm, those walls will crumble. It's inevitable. So how can we, how can we make this work for everyone involved with no one left behind? Let's create a hive, let's create a sandbox hive and work together. Okay, i'm going to leave it there. That's it for now, for the nature of a hive. Talk soon.
