The Most Correct Computer (How Urbit Wins) with Philip Monk, CTO of Tlon | The Urbit Series

Philip Monk co-authored the Urbit whitepaper with Curtis Yarvin back in 2016.

Show Notes

Philip Monk co-authored the Urbit whitepaper with Curtis Yarvin in 2016. He's now one of the lead engineers working on Urbit, and a thoughtful writer as well. We discuss how to find frontiers, the philosophy of "correctness at all costs," how the current internet is captured by gradient descent, and how Urbit will achieve mass adoption.

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✦ Philip's blog: pcmonk.me

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