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mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, specifically re
urbit, it is very much mit media lab vintage. what blowhard
internet media empire antics he indulged before are imo unrelated (and also quite irrelevant)
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-07 21:37:37 asciilifeform: lobbes: nao-forgotten d00d wrote a sort of early premined shitcoin, '
urbit', and asciilifeform won one as a prize in a contest he had. is what this was.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-15 00:30 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in darkest lulzafrica, 'Today we’re happy to announce that
Urbit’s address space, now called Azimuth, is live on the Ethereum blockchain... We want
Urbit to be a reliable, durable, permanent computer that’s simple to use. Today
Urbit is still a prototype, not a consumer product. But we’re making great progress'
a111: Logged on 2018-09-19 15:18 asciilifeform: diana_coman: i like the new v format, but i also very strongly wish to avoid coming to resemble the
urbit people, with their 'aah we restarted the universe for the 7th time'
kristof: Oh, actually, while I have your attention, I thought I would mention that I did check out
Urbit twice; the first was a few years ago back when they were still "ship", the second was maybe a year ago and that time I actually chatted a bit with those folks
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it strikes me how strictly identical to early
urbit this thing is. same sort of socialist revolution aggitated "building the future" can barely contain selves on chair sorta vibe.
mircea_popescu: caaddr there's this occasional scam on the internet, most recently "
urbit".
mircea_popescu: from a link of yours to the
urbit guy, quoting some w/e the fuck other dork like him.
ben_vulpes: (it's an
urbit, and presumably others crackpottery)
a111: Logged on 2017-08-31 16:24 fyr: see this is why I want
urbit to exist uvu
a111: Logged on 2017-08-31 16:17 sageprobes: Been intermittently following Loper for ages, I'm an
Urbit employee ^-^
fyr: My "
urbit-turd" is ultimately on a test-net, and doesn't have live keys
trinque: there's no
urbit-turd you'd also have to keep holding onto?
fyr: see this is why I want
urbit to exist uvu
☟︎ sageprobes: Been intermittently following Loper for ages, I'm an
Urbit employee ^-^
☟︎ erlehmann: one of the few things about
urbit i like is that the system tries to not allow users to input statements not syntactically valid.
erlehmann: my “those people are almost certainly charlatans” moment with
urbit was when their software barfed on a character being more than one byte, despite claiming unicode support.
erlehmann: i often have the problem that i describe a position and then people think i support it. i stopped describing moldbug's ramblings because of that, though i find
urbit in particular a quite good idiot test.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-03 02:15 asciilifeform: my least nonsensical hypothesis is that thiel funded
urbit (yes) to make a half-hearted play at 'embrace&extinguish'ing bitcoin
a111: Logged on 2017-06-03 02:12 erlehmann: on the other hand, i successfully used “see, this guy sold his dukedom in 2013” as argument to convince someone that
urbit is of no use
erlehmann: asciilifeform how should
urbit ever affect bitcoin?
erlehmann: my worst
urbit moment: after i read some hoon language code i started to understand it. immediately decided to no longer look at the stuff.
erlehmann: on the other hand, i successfully used “see, this guy sold his dukedom in 2013” as argument to convince someone that
urbit is of no use
☟︎ erlehmann: especially since i had followed the
urbit story at that time
erlehmann: asciilifeform how long did it take you to discover that
urbit was built on sand? less than a year probably, going from the date on the blog post.
erlehmann: i agree with your assessment of
urbit btw
erlehmann: often not, yes. to understand why
URbit is designed in such an idiosyncratic way, i always suggest to read unqualified reservations first.
erlehmann:
urbit at one point broke down crying if you fed it U+1F46C GAY MEN 👬
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 22:37 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did yarvin /
urbit EVER do anything other than selling "space" of various description ? it's like reddit by now, wut.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did yarvin /
urbit EVER do anything other than selling "space" of various description ? it's like reddit by now, wut.
☟︎ jpt4: I recall his video poker challenge to
Urbit some years ago.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 22:23 ben_vulpes: dang,
urbit went straight to the browser
mircea_popescu: this great dilemma must be integrated, thought the hipster doofus, and so
urbit or whatever. start-up culture.
mircea_popescu: "In future, it would be great if I could just accept any old patch, from any
urbit down to the merest comet, as long as it was sealed by ~zod. In general, I would find it comfortable, knowing that everything my
urbit was running was a collection of patches, each of which had a signature, or a chain of them, originating in the
urbit claiming authorship of that patch." << wtf.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lol wait wut,
urbit bolting v to the side ?
ben_vulpes: fuckin hilarious, "
urbit's aspirations", surely you mean yarvin et al's aspirations
ben_vulpes: lol, instructive to
urbit's aspirations indeed
mircea_popescu: and note that we';re not the onyl ones aware. enemy has placed a strategic
urbit right on this space.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform judging by the thing you linked btw, the "harmless radiator" function of
urbit is out in full effect.
mircea_popescu: together with the bitcoin and the
urbit dispute respectively, this puts him 0 for 3.
mircea_popescu: you mean generally or here ? iirc
urbit was eagerly followed for 3-4 weeks here, until it became obvious the author is technically inept and the following he has entirely disinterested in doing any useful work.
ben_vulpes: mega promisetronics in
urbit docs: informal conventions designed to motivate a healthy ownership structure "
a111: Logged on 2014-02-02 03:29 herbijudlestoids: has anyone come up with any useful use cases for
urbit? all i could think of was a mutt clone lol