The introduction of this primer and the launch of the Ethereum registry coincides with Urbit's founder, Curtis Yarvin, leaving the company [1]. It's possible th

The introduction of this primer and the launch of the Ethereum registry coincides with Urbit's founder, Curtis Yarvin, leaving the company [1]. It's possible that this could increase the reputation of Urbit, accounting for those who have political issues with Yarvin, who used to blog as Mencius Moldbug. At some point a few years ago when some controversy arose, he came into the HN comments to duke it out a bit. I didn't care about the blog posts that most people cared about, but I did care that he seemed to be set up as some kind of "overlord" of Urbit, with control over development and personally owning a large amount of the address space, combined with the sort of high-tech slave grid mentality envisioned in this post [2] where he argued that putting ankle bracelets on the entire population of say, Iraq, was an appropriate way to run the country. A modest proposal? Probably, but it gave me a bad feeling. According to Yarvin, he gave up almost all his personal address space to urbit.org, which is intended to be a foundation for future development. The primer emphasizes a diversity of communities without central control. Urbit has always been a very intriguing concept to me, and I hope it finds success. [1] https://urbit.org/posts/essays/a-founders-farewell/ https://urbit.org/posts/essays/a-founders-farewell/ [2] https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/09/how-to-occupy-and-govern-foreign/ https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/09/how-to-occu...