Feb 13, 2023
Eric Helal Founder of Quartus a Dev shop for Urbit Apps
Rabsef-bicrym on Urbit
~dalten/new-aera
Are we in Utopia or dystopia or neither?
What are the other options besides social dystopia?
Resource constraint
Wind from a dying star novel
Technology stultification
How does Urbit help to solve this?
What does it mean to lose understanding of first principles as an individual and a society?
How does technology influence us to dissociate from the first principles that the technology was built with?
Will the only people who populate the network states be the autists?
How will communities be restored after covid?
What are the religious implications of Urbit?
What are the expressions of development in Urbit vs other computer programming languages?
What does the user experience in Urbit look like in 5 years?
What needs to be done to make urbit something shareable with my sister?
What are the use cases for distributed networked computing instead of centralized systems?
Does Urbit need to be palatable to normies?
What is the address space model?
What is data composability?
How does it relate to urbit and urbit adoption
What is remote scry?
What are the constraints from social conditions versus technology constraints?
How does the leadership of Urbit and/or Tlon and/or Quartus ensure that it eats the legacy internet?
How does content recommendation fit in of Urbit?
Where is the line between limbic engagement and limbic manipulation?
What is the relationship between content recommendation and reputation engines?
How do permissions works on Urbit?
What is sybil protection?
How does urbit trivialize software writing for networking versus the legacy internet?
What is canonical truth?
What is decoherence between various people and truth claims?
What is reputational flow?
How do you build a wikipedia that is not dominated by political whims?