Urbit: The good, the bad, and the insane
The only good thing about Urbit are the Jorge Luis Borges references.<p>Fun fact, the creator of Urbit, Curtis Yarvin, is a far-right blogger with some pretty crazy ideas:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;distributedweb.care&#x2F;posts&#x2F;who-owns-the-stars&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;distributedweb.care&#x2F;posts&#x2F;who-owns-the-stars&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Curtis_Yarvin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Curtis_Yarvin</a><p>&gt; Curtis Guy Yarvin (born 1973), also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American far-right blogger. Yarvin and his ideas are often associated with the alt-right. From 2007 to 2014, he authored a blog called &quot;Unqualified Reservations&quot;, which argued that American democracy is a failed experiment, and that it should be replaced by monarchy or corporate governance. He is known, along with fellow neo-reactionary Nick Land, for developing the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic ideas behind the Dark Enlightenment.<p>I find there are tendencies among some people in tech to bring upon what I would consider the crypto dystopia. Cryptocurrency is one such idea. Like money, but every bit of democratic control and negotiability is removed. It enshrines a kind of cutthroat capitalism with the ruthlessness of an algorithm. (When it works as indended. Currently it&#x27;s mostly used as a ponzi scheme or to buy drugs, but that&#x27;s a different story.)<p>An immutable publication record and undeniable cryptographic identity is another idea which is dystopic to me. In more benign form you find it in IPFS etc., but the culmination of this idea is certainly Urbit.