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gwillen comments on Look for the Next Tech Gold Rush? - Less Wrong Discussion

34 Post author: Wei_Dai 19 July 2014 10:08AM

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Comment author: gwillen 21 July 2014 11:31:23PM 2 points [-]

I would love to hear more about what makes you think Urbit is valuable.

I looked at it quite a bit because it sounded extremely intriguing, but I eventually concluded that it seemed rather cranky and unlikely to get anywhere useful.

(Then again, this was my first thought about Mill, which I have now made a small investment in, so.)

Comment author: David_Gerard 22 July 2014 10:15:21AM 1 point [-]

I don't have any particular reason to think it's valuable. But it looks like an interesting toy ("intriguing", as you note), includes created scarcity and succeeded in getting itself a small amount of publicity. That strikes me as enough to be worth a small amount of attention.