Finally read the moxie post. Pretty good. Basically a to-do list. Not sure why any of it is controversial. He seems skeptical that the to-do list will actually get done, but I’m I’ve seen signs of activity/progress on most of it.
moxie.org/2022/01/07/web
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The focus on the client-server frame does seem odd. Didn’t quite get what that was about. No fundamental showstopper there, though full or even sharded nodes are unlikely to run on phone class devices. But the network edge 1 hope away can and will get a lot better.
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Anchoring on “people will not run their own servers” is odd. Strikes me as a case of “confidence at the wrong abstraction level.” I no longer even know what a “server” is in a world with options ranging from RPis to E2E encrypted-link cloud urbit servers.
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Logging an idea that seems important for future reference. A lot of shaky thinking is marked by what @bysl referred to as “confidence at the wrong abstraction level”
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If there’s a valid point there, it’s likely at a different abstraction level. “People will not do self-custody” perhaps. Not “server.”
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I interpret him as saying that the reason the to-do list won't get done is because the incentive structure is lined up against it.
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It's a to-do list like
1. Solve a couple big structural problems
2. ...
3. PROFIT!!!... substantially less than we're currently profiting
is a to-do list
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Feels inevitable that folks will take whatever moxie has to say about this particular corner of tech pretty seriously.
Frankly he’s a lot more open-minded about the space and gentle with his findings than I’d have guessed.
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