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Re:Urbit Precepts Discussion by Jtsummers on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @03:23PM (#25281067)
"I'm going to rename 5 to 4 and 4 to 5. If you can't keep that straight when dealing with this community, but not the rest of the world, it proves you're an incompetent dilettante and we can safely ignore you."

Yes, very reasonable.

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Re:Urbit Precepts Discussion by centimeter on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @04:07PM (#25281659)
A) It's not (only) about competency; it's about objective alignment.

B) You have the logical entailment flipped. Know arcana => in-group. ¬ in-group => ¬ know arcana. It's designed to reject out-group members efficiently, even at the cost of a high false positive rate.

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Re:Urbit Precepts Discussion by errantspark on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @04:17PM (#25281781)
Eternal September sucks, but Urbit has traded "ability to ever be relevant or gain significant momentum" for "no eternal September". It doesn't strike me as a pragmatic choice, then again Urbit is prehaps better viewed as an art project pursuing the ultimate navel-gazing extremes of NIH syndrome, and when viewed in that light the choices they make start to make a lot more sense to me.
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