[00:00:00.38] BLUE USB Audio 2.0:	So yeah, the first thing that I can think of when I think of the culture, which I've bit about, um, for a few years now, but I'm only just getting to, in the books, the culture series by Iain M. Banks. It's the same as Iain Banks, but he uses the M for the culture series, and it is sci-fi work, basically. It's this kind of... luxury communism and what it would mean to reinterpret that I know it's probably better considered in the context of anarcho capitalism well I'm not sure if that's right I think that's just people not liking the term communism I don't know if that ever came out but I just came across an essay posted to a Newsnet group I think on behalf of in banks by a friend but i'm not sure about that um called notes on the culture so i'm gonna read that um and i'm just at the stage now um of some detailed descriptions of what these um What the lifestyle is on one of these mega-ships, mega-spaceships, which makes me think of a kind of Bezos-type interpretation of space, humanity's relationship to space. and I think that the economy it's interesting this so this is round like early 90s so it's the first time I've read something which which feels like it was earlier than the thoughts that I had on how money would work or how democracy - I don't know if there's anything in the culture around democracy - I guess it's sort of irrelevant. in the series, but we'll find out, would work, and that sort of resonates with me, or seems the same. It seems like that I'm connecting to someone who is in the same world as me, which is interesting, and I'm wondering about like the five, ten, hundreds of people who, thousands of people who are the same, and why we haven't discovered each other, and what could happen if we did discover each other. I'm also thinking like what would happen if instead of what Banks, can I call you Ian, can do, or could do at the time, than what I believe we should be doing. I believe we should be writing in science fiction, but also in code, and by code I don't mean software. I mean a kind of blueprint, an engineering description of what can be made. also a kind of legal code, so not what can be made, but the statements, the orders, the imperatives, the commands, if you like, to make those things. they're financed, the amount of finance being put into them by various parties, by finance I mean energetically and so forth. So this concept of performative science that I have, I want the science fiction... writing to be tied and written in that language. In other words, not written as a descriptive language, but written as a performative language. That's the shorthand that I use, and I'm thinking, how can I reach out to and connect with these other people? science fiction writers, like if there was in Banks's, as the euphorism or dyslexic aphorism goes, he's no longer with us, but if he was, how could I reach out to him and write together with him? as a stranger, this writing with strangers aspect, and also I'm thinking in a way of living it, so rather than just imagining it in my mind, I'm imagining implementing it in my daily routine. Which also now seems possible, so the way that I'm now speaking into a microphone and an AI is going to transcribe that into text and place it and record it and then create an artefact, a page, and how I can then publish that page. share it in a specific way, and how I can use my voice to interact with an agent that I have created here in my home lab, and how the position of the microphones and the coffee and the paint in the cameras which are not on. embedded into this aesthetic environment that I'm crafting by hand as a kind of living artwork and that I'm living inside I you know I sleep, I wake up, I piss, I shit, I have a coffee in the morning and I record my thoughts how that lived experience is like living on one of these ships with an AI built into it where it's not typing. a computer or touching a phone. It's just walking around and cooking and speaking and occasionally twiddling with a knob, something like this, and a hammer and building and painting, and how plants are part of it, and watering them and growing them, and thinking of that integration, that kind of cyborg, kind of Gaia merging with AI in your lived environment type. way of being and building it and how you can do it in a small scale in a real scale in your own life and connect to other people and how that economy works it feels like it's possible to build the world of the culture in reality today with like-minded people with other minds.