Crazy Wisdom
What Does It Mean to Shift Around Time? w/ ~Pilwyc-Fastec
- technology
- identity
- reputation
- engagement
- ai
- Urbit
About this episode
My pseudoanonymous guest here today is ~Pilwyc-Fastec, you can find him on Urbit by that name spelled out
Urbit is the right OS to build the future of the smart home.
What is a smart home?
What does it mean to shift around time?
How did the mainframe build the modern smart home infrastructure?
How can we share time on devices with others in a home in an intelligent way?
What was the grant process like for Urbit?
What is identity?
Peer to peer versus server to client
What does it mean to codify reputation?
What is the difference between reputation and identity?
What is the human way of doing reputation?
What is the antifragile nature of reputation?
What is preferential attachment?
What is an engagement loop?
What is calm technology?
Are client-server relationships more promotive of engagement loops?
What is a group recommender system?
What is the relationship between AI and Urbit? How will Urbit integrate with artificiall intelligence?
What does it mean to reduce error for AI? Is that all it is?
What is the relationship with business decisions and the effectiveness of artificial intelligence?
What is a pace layer?
Why does technology over-complicate things and then decomplicate them?
What is an edge device?
Episode transcript
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Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. My guest today is Pseudonymous and his name is Pillwick Fastek on Urbit. So if you're on Urbit, go ahead and find him at Pillwick Fastech P I, L, W Y C, midscore, F, A S T E C. And he's doing something around communal computing and basically has the thesis that Urbit, and you're probably familiar with Urbit if you've been listening to the past 10 episodes of mine or so, that Urbit is the right OS to build the future of the smart home. So welcome, welcome to the show.
Yeah, I guess what I would call a smart home is, you know, there's a bunch of different places that people live that we've started to add more and more technology to over time, right? At first it was probably very dumb technology, or at least, you know, going back a few hundred years, thinking about it from the standpoint of these things that we would create, like a table or a chair, they were used an awful lot, and they were usually built by the person that, that lived in that domicile or house. As time went on, we started to add things not only like radios, right, but also telephones. And …
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