
The Most Correct Computer (How Urbit Wins) with Philip Monk, CTO of Tlon | The Urbit Series
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Is Erbit a Darwinian Model?
A lot of people presume a kind of darwinian model where what lasts and what is worked on the longest must be that which is the fittest. So when you apply that kind of framework, how did you land on erbit? Of all the different paths that could have been taken in the history of computing? What about erbit jumped out at you as the a moment where you like, oh, this is the path that wasn't taken, which we need to take, right? Yes. It's kind of counter intuitive, because you're basily saying, look, projects in the past that appear to many people as having failed, as having been that the branch is not
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