Crazy Wisdom
What are the downsides of having everything become easily accessible? - Noah Kumin (Mars Review of Books)
- digital publishing
- intellectual discourse
- magazine culture
- online communities
- information access
- journalism
About this episode
Noah Kumin
Editor In Chief of the Mars Review of Books, publish at machinewar.substack.com
~librex-dozryc on Urbit
- What is the mars review of books?
- What is the relationship between collapse and urbit?
- How did you get involved with Urbit?
- What are the downsides of having everything become easily accessible?
- Do you think that Urbit will take all the good parts of the old web but keep the beauty of decentralization?
- What are the data storage aspects of urbit?
- Why is it confusing when people say Urbit is like your own computer?
- Why were computers originally people instead of machines?
- Will Mars Review of Books get into hosting planets or is it already do it?
- What is the relationship between Tirrell and Mars Reviews of Books?
- What is eternal September?
- The only people who were getting
- What would a university look like for Urbit?
- Why is it that when people learn norms, things become boring for divergent people?
- How did Scientism creep into the Silicon Valley industry, and how did that affect the current online networks?
- In what ways is the development of Urbit centralized like Ethereum development is?
- Urbit’s value is that there is no spam whatsoever
- What is the future of print in the age of post-internetism?
- Print allows for blockchain like verifiiability
- A bit of something like a vinyl trend for print books
- What is the future of serious literature in the age of internet?
- What is the diversion value of VR-porn? How about Nuclear Fusion?
- Can man live on VR-porn alone?
- If you don’t give a young kid a smartphone are you weakening their virtual immune system?
- What does it mean to outsource your intelligence to the crowd?
- Why is that becoming an insider in a fragile society requires so much BS?
Episode transcript
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. This podcast is for you. If you have an insane drive to find the truth of things, it's not the good answers that we seek, but the good questions. I interview a range of different guests from many different fields, all with the intention to uncover the simple truths that are hidden in plain sight. Most people don't want to go there. I go there, my guests go there, and you benefit. Please let me know if you enjoy these episodes and as always, subscribe on itunes, Spotify, or wherever you listen to the podcasts. Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. My guest today is Noah Kuman. He is the editor in chief of the Mars Review of Books and he publishes that machinewar.substack.com and we'll talk about it at the end of the show. But if you want to find him on Urbit at the moment, you can find them at Librex Mid Score dosric, which is L, I, B R E X midscore, D O, Z, R Y C. Thank you so much for coming on the show.
The Mars Review of Books is a new magazine in print and on Urban. The first issue came out in May 2022. The aim is just to combine the best of, I guess you could say legacy magazine publishing, New York publishing, with the best of the new emerging online intellectual world.
That's very interesting. I come from a long line of journalists. My grandfather was a journalist in D.C. and my father is a journalist and in technology in the West Coast. And so I grew up learning a lot about journalism and hating it, not wanting to have anything to do with it. Now I find myself back in this.
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