Why is Modernity Difficult on Spiritual Deviants? w/ Neal Davis

Aug 29, 2022

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Director of developer experience at the Urbit Foundation

~lagrev-nocfep on Urbit

@sigilante on twitter

What is a sigil?
What is the most important thing you’ve learned about teaching?
1. Driven by authoritarian high modernism
2. Top down imposition
3. Structural way of understanding context
4. Industrial revolution
5. Ten years ago there was online education
6. MIT open course where
7. Open up the content to everyone and it will create revolution
1. Introducing a model that the person gets illuminated from
2. Humans are good at metaphors
3. Give them a framework and people will figure it out
1. These things are measurable
1. Open problem in computer science
2. Two classes of complexity
3. Polynomial time
4. Vastly exponentially complicated than things that can be solved in a certain time
5. NP on the hard problems
1. Has to do with the structure of our attention
1. 9 years experience
2. Philosophy of pedagogy
3. Why doesn’t it make it easy to open up knowledge?
4. How do you make something relevant?
5. Strongly in favor of hyper individualist approach to teaching
6. Interdisciplinary
7. Try everything, some things stick
8. Analogical reasoning
9. How do you improvise for metaphors?
10. Why is it so disincentivized to do improv?
11. Input output model doesn’t quite work because the context is so vast
12. The model of the areas of learning is helpful but not 100% accurate
13. Tutorial method does not scale but its the most effective
14. Really hard problem
15. P=NP what is it?
16. When I’m working on a particular mode, gumption traps, energy sinks, takes a lot of agency to activate yourself out of the state
17. Rumsfeld called the unknown unknowns
18. What questions do you have? Is a better question than What are your questions?
19. What do you do when you need to solve a problem?
20. Someone tried to build a solution for what Neal is talking about at 10 minutes in
21. Go to the fringes to get the edge cases
22. What is the advantage of a low status source?
How do you make your questions and answers legible?
Subtopics and how to use them?
What is the demand for previous for previous programmers learning Urbit?
What is the percentage of programmers who are learning Urbit?
What was the first iteration of home school?
1. Dozen people finished
2. Now they have 60 people finishing
Why does Urbit have a weird perception from people?
1. Once you hear about it you go into the rabbit hole and it never stops
2. Its a web within a web
3. Its like a secret door in a house didn’t you know about it
Pitch the idea of the treasure hunt powered by Urbit
Why did stars survive in demand?
1. How much did they survive?
2. How much does it cost to buy a star now versus the 2022 downturn in crypto
How do you get the right answer as opposed to the fast answer?
Only developers who are autodidactic like and stay with Urbit
Who is Richard Stallman?
1. LISP
2. He built community around GANU, Linux?
3. Invented the free software
What is functional programming?
What is the relationship between mental divergence and programming?
What is the third type of developers in relation to something like Urbit?
1. The arguers
What is the fourth type of developers in relation to something like Urbit?
1. Rebellious and devious enough
What is the relationship between Bitcoin and Urbit?
What are the main challenges you see in terms of my crazy idea for the treasure hunt?
What are the options to build this quickly?
1. This is the main problem
1. Is it a web page driven experience?
2. Build an urbit app and get them to install it
3. You would have to figure out how to do the call outs to the phone device
4. Hot or cold game
5. Only track wether they found it or not
How can we effectively expose underlying things to the urbit server?
24 minutes in
Should we think about Urbit as a operating system?
Who is experimenting with Urbit moons as internet of things?