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Urbit has continuously failed to explain what it is here where people are way above average IQ. It's doomed.

• throwanem 10y ago
  And yet it manages to retain the enduring interest, both cognitive and financial, of other people who are no less likely to be of above average IQ than Hacker News commenters. Perhaps there's something about Urbit that makes it unappealing to people who are likely to hang out on Hacker News, or vice versa. Or perhaps it's doomed and those people just haven't noticed yet. Or something else might be going on. There's really no telling just yet.
  • nikolay 10y ago
    There always will be greedy people who didn't even get that this is not a craptocurrency that they can resell. It's explained on the website!
    • throwanem 10y ago
      The community long predates the crowdsale.
  • davidgerard 10y ago
    You're missing the difference here between "useful" and "interesting", the latter being a techie jargon word meaning "what the hell even is that" or "I ain't even mad, that's amazing." Urbit is provably effective at generating techie amazement, and I can well believe it created enough for well-off people to spend money on address space for the amusement value (at least one has explicitly said that's why he bought some). Urbit is a legitimate mad art project, an untrammelled 200-proof expression of its creator's personality; that is in fact interesting. This is not, however, the same as usefulness.
    • throwanem 10y ago
      I don't think anyone has yet made a claim of usefulness on Urbit's behalf. Certainly no one at Tlon has!