>Why do you think it is a good idea to make things "social" at the OS level? That seems like a very strange abstraction policy. Social means a bit more than ju

>Why do you think it is a good idea to make things "social" at the OS level? That seems like a very strange abstraction policy. Social means a bit more than just Facebook. It also means primitives for things like collaborative editors and coworking spaces, video conferencing, etc. IMO the ideal social system would look a lot like a mix between the old timesharing systems, the early Internet and Douglas Engelbarts "Mother of All Demos": https://archive.org/details/XD300-23_68HighlightsAResearchCntAugHumanIntellect https://archive.org/details/XD300-23_68HighlightsAResearchCn... >And how is this system "politics-aware"? I'm not even sure what that would entail from what basically seems to amount to a collection of esolangs. Well it comes with the community. The way Urbit is structured your personal cloud/ship/etc is intended to be linked up to a community of other users. Politics are part of being social and part of communities. If you don't have a structured way of handling it it'll happen regardless and can be made less ugly with official support. "The part that is stable we are going to predict, and the part that is unstable we are going to control." - John Von Neumann, 1948