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I somehow missed this one until now. Apparently it was once mentioned in the comments on the old sneerclub but I don't think it got a proper post, and I think it deserves one.

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[-] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Graydon Hoare pointed out on Mastodon (and more) that Urbit was in fact the Antiversity that Moldbug conspicuously failed to write up in the Unqualified Reservations days.

He believes Urbit will perform the social control function that he thinks universities perform.

You have to unpack a few zillion very dumb social assumptions there. (Or, y'know, not.)

[-] m@blat.at 4 points 11 months ago

@dgerard Oh, the Antiversity! I remember that. I think it was one of the first Lovecraftian horrors I was exposed to when I first started to take an interest in this particular rabbithole of weird.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 11 months ago

El Sandifer and I just could not work out what the arsing fuck Yarvin was going on about there, El worked way too hard trying to track it down, and eventually we decided he just failed to write it despite taking people's money to. Kicking myself we didn't work out it was Urbit.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I did not have Mr. Rust in the anti-Urbit camp (or even in the know-about-Urbit camp)

Also I guess Wikipedia is now part of the Cathedral

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 11 months ago

we're all convinced we're Denis Diderot, none more Cathedral

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