Since 2011, anyone could have downloaded an open-source house design, cut out the parts and assemble it themselves. So why is building a new home still so hard?
In this episode, we talk with Indy Johar, founder of Dark Matter Labs. He argues that the real barriers are the hidden rules behind what gets built, like warranties and access to land, and his team is working to rewrite them.
We cover:
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:45 From open-source furniture to rewriting the rules behind it
03:56 How do you change the hidden rules behind society?
06:02 Why Indy stopped designing buildings and started building things
07:45 How do you cool the Arctic?
10:07 How to keep our options open as a civilization
12:55 How AI's hunger for energy could bring about an energy revolution
17:34 Are we building AI that commands, or AI that works alongside us?
19:00 What if AI questioned us instead of giving us answers?
20:33 Rethinking identity of people and ecosystems in Taiwan
23:31 Why Indy sees technology as an extension of nature
25:39 d/acc: why decentralizing power isn't enough
27:07 Who owns the carbon in your walls? The "boring revolution"
27:59 How can you join the boring revolution?
28:34 Should you start with experiments?
29:42 Open-source housing: an IKEA catalog for building a home
30:54 The most interesting projects by Dark Matter Labs
33:14 The best advice Indy ever received
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