Distributed internet

No. Moldbug falls under techno-commercialism, and Donovan falls under ethno-tribalism.
They may agree on certain points of praxis and observations of human organisation, which is why they are frequently grouped into the kind of label "neoreacitonary" (against liberal democracy, against equality, etc.) but have totally different paths for that. Since Zig Forums and Zig Forums would both hate neoliberalism/90's third-wayism doesn't make them same (although, if you are a NRx then you probably do see them as descendants of some common root. Perhaps citing fascist anti-aristocracy and communists anti-aristocracy)
shoo shoo alt-right
but yeah moldie would just oppose them on a theoretical basis because they are {liberal|democratic|kleptocratic|etc} states. like how rothbard opposed israel

Given urbit's population by SSC/LW/HN types, you're basically just going to make a fancier reddit.

Thanks.

HN makes fun of Urbit, it's really /ourguys/ behind it. Regardless, the system looks good.

They don't make fun of urbit they just cry at the terseness of hoon and bitch about Curtis being a racist.

Neat. Keep us posted for sure.

So it seems YC and HN are Thiel's favourite children over TIon.
Also, I don't know what counts as /ourguys/ if you're still talking about tech-comms. Aren't there a lot of atheo-constructivist "optimise everything and take ritalin" types there?

Curtis could easily have made the language spec sensible and easy.

But that's not the point.

He wants to totally reconstitute the understanding of how computing is done right? So you need to have that barrier to entry or the project gets eternal-septembered from the start and before you know it, someone has grafted a Django and node.js electron framework npm addon XUL binary Posix TCP/IP XML/JSON/SAML2 PHP/SQL ObjectFactory template Fucktext transfer protocol tumour to it.

But if you design your spec to the point where you might as well toss 2's complement, then you're going to get the autistic creatives who pick up your esoteric runes and actually make progress without being hampered or CoC'd by modern software world.

After that's done, then you can build a sensible LISPish AST syntax or C-like syntax or really whatever you want that transpiles to the underlying nock/hoon language. But unlike the other normal languages that these transpiled langs will look like, the underlying constraints of the Urbit system will be baked in.
Like putting the bucket under the faucet before turning it on. So if you make something stupid, the language plain won't let you. I don't know much about Ethereum, but I imagine it something like DApps.

what's that even mean?

He thinks Thiel prefers HN over Tlon despite not even being one of the YC partners, and literally being a Tlon investor.

Can you follow people on urbit? Or just chat in your gay little chatrooms? I'm a comet right now but I want to join some communities.

There are other rooms but you don't know them :^)

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