What are the downsides of having everything become easily accessible? - Noah Kumin (Mars Review of Books)

Nov 28, 2022

Noah Kumin

Editor In Chief of the Mars Review of Books, publish at machinewar.substack.com

~librex-dozryc on Urbit

1. What is the mars review of books?
2. What is the relationship between collapse and urbit?
3. How did you get involved with Urbit?
4. What are the downsides of having everything become easily accessible?
5. Do you think that Urbit will take all the good parts of the old web but keep the beauty of decentralization?
6. What are the data storage aspects of urbit?
7. Why is it confusing when people say Urbit is like your own computer?
8. Why were computers originally people instead of machines?
9. Will Mars Review of Books get into hosting planets or is it already do it?
10. What is the relationship between Tirrell and Mars Reviews of Books?
11. What is eternal September?
    1. The only people who were getting 
12. What would a university look like for Urbit?
13. Why is it that when people learn norms, things become boring for divergent people?
14. How did Scientism creep into the Silicon Valley industry, and how did that affect the current online networks?
15. In what ways is the development of Urbit centralized like Ethereum development is?
16. Urbit’s value is that there is no spam whatsoever
17. What is the future of print in the age of post-internetism?
    1. Print allows for blockchain like verifiiability 
    2. A bit of something like a vinyl trend for print books
18. What is the future of serious literature in the age of internet?
19. What is the diversion value of VR-porn? How about Nuclear Fusion?
20. Can man live on VR-porn alone?
21. If you don’t give a young kid a smartphone are you weakening their virtual immune system?
22. What does it mean to outsource your intelligence to the crowd?
23. Why is that becoming an insider in a fragile society requires so much BS?