broadly it's Yet Another My Favourite Toy FP Edifice, where you think "WHAT IF THE WHOLE COMPUTING WORLD WAS A FUNCTION", and more proximately it's a crib from

broadly it's Yet Another My Favourite Toy FP Edifice, where you think "WHAT IF THE WHOLE COMPUTING WORLD WAS A FUNCTION", and more proximately it's a crib from the Nix paper. Yarvin claims all ideas in Urbit are 100% original work do not steal, but this is not quite true. At the moment the only bit of Urbit that works is a chat forum. This will one day develop fully into the Antiversity which will allow the righteous to network(-state) and fight back against the Cathedral, you see if it doesn't mate.