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from the FAQ: "In early 2019, Curtis left the Urbit project and gave all of his voting interest (both as address space and voting shares in the company) back to

from the FAQ: "In early 2019, Curtis left the Urbit project and gave all of his voting interest (both as address space and voting shares in the company) back to Tlon. He retains a non-voting, minority interest in both the address space and the company — but is not involved in the day-to-day development or operations."

blotter_paper 7y ago
Why is the project still named after his Royalist blog? It's hard to take this distancing act seriously when the very title of your project is a fascist dog whistle.
- basilisks 7y ago
  Can you back up this claim?
  - blotter_paper 7y ago
    Here is the ending of the second-to-last entry in Unqualified Reservations by Curtis Yarvin (AKA Mencius Moldbug)[0]: > Anyway. UR will reemerge, of course. But not here, and not soon—and probably not even in this form. I’ll also try to do something non-lame with the archives. Thanks for reading! If the name alone isn't enough, I feel like this context makes it pretty obvious that he named Urbit after his racist blog. [0]: https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2014/08/hiatus/ https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2014/08/hiatus/
    - eoxenford 7y ago
      No, Urbit is named after urbs, urbis, the Latin word for “city,” together with the computer term bit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9677378 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9677378
      - blotter_paper 7y ago
        He claims to have been working on Urbit since 2002, and the first UR post was from 2007. It's entirely believable to me that the name Urbit came first (albeit not publicly), but the names are very obviously related and the quote I pulled above shows that he considers some post-2014 project a continuation of UR. I can believe the specific claims of the comment you linked, but I think it dances around the fact that these two projects are purposefully tied together by nomenclature. Whether UR or Urbit was named first in Yarvin's head isn't really the point.

blotter_paper 7y ago

Why is the project still named after his Royalist blog? It's hard to take this distancing act seriously when the very title of your project is a fascist dog whistle.

basilisks 7y ago
Can you back up this claim?
- blotter_paper 7y ago
  Here is the ending of the second-to-last entry in Unqualified Reservations by Curtis Yarvin (AKA Mencius Moldbug)[0]: > Anyway. UR will reemerge, of course. But not here, and not soon—and probably not even in this form. I’ll also try to do something non-lame with the archives. Thanks for reading! If the name alone isn't enough, I feel like this context makes it pretty obvious that he named Urbit after his racist blog. [0]: https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2014/08/hiatus/ https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2014/08/hiatus/
  - eoxenford 7y ago
    No, Urbit is named after urbs, urbis, the Latin word for “city,” together with the computer term bit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9677378 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9677378
    - blotter_paper 7y ago
      He claims to have been working on Urbit since 2002, and the first UR post was from 2007. It's entirely believable to me that the name Urbit came first (albeit not publicly), but the names are very obviously related and the quote I pulled above shows that he considers some post-2014 project a continuation of UR. I can believe the specific claims of the comment you linked, but I think it dances around the fact that these two projects are purposefully tied together by nomenclature. Whether UR or Urbit was named first in Yarvin's head isn't really the point.