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Pro tip: I'm mildly clever. However I wan't able to understand the value or reasoning of this. Make it more clear and resell it to me

• ZenoArrow 10y ago
  Consider what you would do with a personal server. Now imagine it's easy enough for anyone to use and maintain. Now imagine everyone's personal server could connect and communicate with each other seamlessly and securely, transferring data of any type. That's the promise of urbit.
  • rspeer 10y ago
    If you ended with "That's the promise of the Information Superhighway", it would be an MCI commercial from the '90s.
    • yarvin9 10y ago
      I remember that commercial! Exactly right. Just think of Urbit as the Information Super-Duperhighway, and you can't go wrong.
    • ZenoArrow 10y ago
      Interesting! I wasn't familiar with that MCI commercial (I don't live in the US), but I can see what I wrote has that type of tone.
• PeCaN 10y ago
  The key for me was: > Each urbit is a node on an global, encrypted P2P network. Your Urbit name, a generated pseudonym like ~talsur-todres, is also your network address. Like Bitcoin, Urbit address space is a cryptographic asset with a limited supply. Additionally from the whitepaper: > Functionally, Urbit is a full execution stack. VM, compiler, OS, network, web server, and core apps are 30kloc […] It's a distributed, encrypted peer-to-peer virtual machine. Fascinating. Interesting to see what Urbit _actually_ is after all the pretentious bullshit they've spouted in the past.
• internaut 10y ago
  The insight by Curtis Yarvin is that modern computation is massively, massively wasteful. That there is a simple way to do computing we do today.