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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Derek Elkins‭ · 2023-03-30T10:09:01Z (12 months ago)
I'm a bit confused about what you're confused about for the first part. In a Russell-style universe system, we'd have a hierarchy of universes with $\mathcal U_i : \mathcal U_{i+1}$, i.e. the $i$th universe is a type in the $(i+1)$th universe. As you state, for a Tarski-style universe system, $\mathcal U_i$ is a type of "codes" for types in the $i$th universe and $T_i(a)$ for $a : \mathcal U_i$ is the "actual" type, i.e. a thing that can be to the right of a "$:$". Thus, there should be a code $u_i$ in $\mathcal U_{i+1}$ that represents the fact that $\mathcal U_i$ is a type in the $(i+1)$th universe. That is, $u_i : \mathcal U_{i+1}$ and $T_{i+1}(u_i) = \mathcal U_i$. This is just directly how you say the Russell-style $\mathcal U_i : \mathcal U_{i+1}$ in a Tarski-style universe.

As for how $El$ relates to $T_i$, $El$ and $T_0$ are the same thing where LF has only one universe, namely $\mathsf{Type}$. So $\mathcal U_0$ correspond to $\mathsf{Type}$, $T_0$ corresponds to $El$, and $type$ corresponds to $kind$. To be clear, this is treating LF and this logic with Tarski-style universes on the same footing. If we wanted to formalize this logic in LF, then the $El$ of LF as the meta-language and the $T_0$ of the object language would be different kinds of things.