Other Life

Anthony Arroyo runs The Combine, a startup incubator for startups building on Urbit. We discuss how Urbit governance really works, debunking the many myths, i.e. the meme that Urbit has a "feudal" or even "fascist" governance structure. We also discuss how Urbit competes with Ethereum, what kinds of businesses are starting to appear on Urbit, and many other interesting topics.

✦ Anthony on Urbit: ~poldec-tonteg

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Sam Frank has written for Harper's and The New Yorker, but he was also an early buyer of Ethereum because Vitalik "looked like an alien." Sam explains his heuristics for judging technological and cultural projects, how he first met Curtis Yarvin, what he sees in Urbit, and how he eventually became one of 256 senators in Urbit's galactic senate.

✦ Sam on Urbit: ~todset-partug

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A short lecture on "Review of CCRU's Digital Hyperstition" in the book Writings 1997-2003. We analyze how the CCRU foresaw many aspects of the crypto economy from first principles in the early 1990s. See more below.

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Ted Blackman is a senior engineer at Tlon and one of the most advanced Urbit engineers in the world. We discuss how Urbit will get faster, how it will scale to billions of users, and how Urbit fits into the blockchain ecosystem. In some ways Urbit is like a blockchain, in other ways Urbit is the categorical dual of the blockchain, soon there will be a blockchain built on top of Urbit, and more.

✦ Ted on Urbit: ~rovnys-ricfer

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Philip Monk co-authored the Urbit whitepaper with Curtis Yarvin in 2016. He's now one of the lead engineers working on Urbit, and a thoughtful writer as well. We discuss how to find frontiers, the philosophy of "correctness at all costs," how the current internet is captured by gradient descent, and how Urbit will achieve mass adoption.

✦ Philip on Urbit: ~wicdev-wisryt

✦ Philip's blog: pcmonk.me

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Nico Arqueros is the CEO of dcSpark, a startup that's recently launched two products built on Urbit. We discuss their unique thesis that the future of Urbit apps is outside of Urbit, with Urbit ID as the universal identity layer for the multi-chain future.

✦ Nico on Urbit: ~dovnec-bonder
✦ UrbitVisor is a Chrome plugin that uses your Urbit ID to interact with websites. https://urbitvisor.com/
✦ UrbitDashboard lets you explore your ship's activity in a browser-based dashboard. https://urbitdashboard.com

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Honor Levy and Walter Pearce host the podcast Wet Brain. We discuss cataclysmic events about to happen, Starseed Theory, demons, fashion, God, the CIA, the problem with Millennials, how they got into Urbit, and more.

The Wet Brain podcast: https://www.patreon.com/wetbrain

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Galen Wolfe-Pauly is the CEO of Tlon. We discuss why Urbit is led by designers rather than engineers, the theories of Christopher Alexander, the longest-running company in the world (Kongo Gumi), and much more.

Galen on Urbit: ~ravmel-ropdyl

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The Tirrel corporation is a startup building payment rails for Urbit. We discuss capitalism on Urbit, Deleuze, Christianity, and the impossibility of human dignity on the current internet.

Tirrel Corporation: https://tirrel.io/
Christian on Urbit: ~pindet-timmut
Logan on Urbit: ~tacryt-socryp

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