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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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