Urbit: A clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century

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15 points·mikece··7 comments

Urbit's documentation is impenetrable, with jargon formed out of generic nouns used without a coherent metahpor. This is an appropriate day for the submission, because it looks like an elaborate joke to somebody who wants to understand it.

some linux os that comes with "a decentralized ID", "a crypto wallet", and "customer support chat bot", idk the vibe that this is going for but i think i'll pass lmao.

the original and still the best NFTs

obligatory PSA that mencius moldbug, though "distanced" from this project, owns a significant chunk of its resource asset (galaxies/stars).

you better like moldbug if you support urbit, because you're going to help make him extremely wealthy if it takes off.

I'm fairly confident that a vast majority of people know about him and don't like him merely don't like him because they've been told to not like him (from people like you, for example), and generally don't have the attention span to get through a single post of his, because they are longer than a tweet.

Of course it will sound like I'm defending him, but I'm not. I don't buy a fair amount of his arguments, but I also don't think he is some dangerous figure that needs to be shunned from society or kicked off of a campus if he visits a friend for lunch.

On HN of all places, you'll probably find quite a few people who have read at least a couple of his essays.

100% agree, but I don't think the kind of people who read his essays, or even anybody who takes the time to read any essays of a similar length, will be swayed by the kind of logic displayed by OP("urbit=>moldbug=>bad")

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