[meadhbh-hamrick]

Meh. Urbit. That's not a weird technical scene, that's a lightning-rod for arguments about code of conduct at conferences and whether you're a fan of Bergson / Popper-esque Open Societies [cf. "The Open Society and Its Enemies" and "The Two Sources of Morality and Religion" vs. J. S. Mill "On Liberty"]

[dcow]

No, really, it’s not political. But haters love to make it about politics because they can’t rebut it technically.

Technically it’s a very interesting and valuable project. And there are many normal well adjusted humans beings working on it. It’s a shame people want it smeared out of existence because a Berkeley grad who no longer has anything to do with the project has weird political fantasies that some people don’t like. People really seem to struggle to separate the two. Makes it feel deliberate.

[boole1854]

> that's a lightning-rod for arguments about code of conduct at conferences and whether you're a fan of Bergson / Popper-esque Open Societies [cf. "The Open Society and Its Enemies" and "The Two Sources of Morality and Religion" vs. J. S. Mill "On Liberty"]

I'm out of the loop but intrigued.

Can you explain what the controversy is? In what way are Bergson / Popper and Mill said to disagreed and what does it have to do with (Urbit?) conference codes of conduct?

[sph]

There's a nice search feature at the bottom of the main page. There are dozen of Urbit threads that go the same direction.

[sph]

> that's a lightning-rod for argument

Then you must be the lightning itself, creating an account to ionise and electrically charge the thread I guess.

[meadhbh-hamrick]

You're suggesting I created an account an hour before urbit was mentioned in this thread just knowing someone would mention it? And I made the comment with my IRL name to hide my tracks?

Sometimes the world doesn't revolve around you.