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Autor: Mike Gogulski
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Para: System undo crew
Assunto: Re: [unSYSTEM] Urbit: a personal cloud computer
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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