The Urbit project is interesting. So much so that I bought a "carrier"
in the ecosystem late last year... basically a land claim to 1/256 of
the total address space:
https://github.com/urbit/urbit/blob/83228289a4fe2d665f31497e4d4aefc38bfd0f89/urb/zod/arvo/ames.hoon#L195
I see now that this puts me in the company of Tim Draper.
Mencius Moldbug aka Curtis Yarvin is rather less "rocking", however.
He's one of the main exponents of a political perspective called the
neoreactionary movement
(
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreactionary_movement). For a bit more
flavor of what that's about, one of the blogs in that headspace is
entitled "Return of Kings". Bleh.
On 11/09/2014 05:58 AM, Andrea Castillo wrote:
>
> Yeah Moldbug rocks.
> http://moldbuggery.blogspot.com/2009/03/collected-writings-of-mencius-moldbug.html?m=1
>
> On Nov 8, 2014 11:52 PM, "Nicolas Mendoza" <nicolasmendo@???
> <mailto:nicolasmendo@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> This is very UnSystem:
>
> "The user of the future will fly her own computer. She will own
> and control her own identity and her own data. She will even host
> her own apps. She will not be part of someone else's Big Data. She
> will be her own Little Data. Unless she's a really severe geek,
> she will pay some service to store and execute her Urbit ship -
> but she can move it anywhere else, anytime, for the cost of the
> bandwidth.
>
> A user can't manage a general-purpose computer unless she
> basically understands what it's doing. She may not be a
> programmer, but she needs at least a rough mental model of her
> computer's state.
>
> A personal computer has to be a *simple* computer. This is why we
> built a new system software stack from scratch, with the goal of
> bringing it in under 10,000 lines of code. Urbit is about 50% over
> this complexity budget, but nobody's perfect."
>
>
> http://doc.urbit.org/
>
> --
> Nicolas Mendoza
>
> PhD Researcher
> School of Creative Media
> City University of Hong Kong
> China PDR - HKSAR
>
>
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