A bacterial agent introduced to an agar-laden petri dish rapidly overruns it, consuming all available resources & ultimately starving to death.
Contrast an open ecosystem: adaptive, exploitive at the limit of available resources & competitive at the pinnacle effort of evolution.
Such a Red Queen's Race produces beauty even as it churns through resources, because in no other way can beauty be made.
As Nick Land put it, โeverything of value has been built in Hellโ [0].
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Urbit *is* winning. It cleared technical hurdles, solved intractable computer science problems, & developed a unique & antifragile open source culture. It has a single-language stack, a robust educational program, & active dev ecosystem. Startups make big bets on #Urbit success.
Core dev has an open-door policy. The roadmap and grants are public, devs regularly work and meet in gather.town, and core dev has a commitment to merge all good contributions.