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Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

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Re: Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

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It's not clear whether or not he talked to Sam Altman in his/her "pre-interview". If I had a pre-interview for a job at Amazon, does that mean I have a Jeff Bezos story?

Well, more accurately, an anecdote about a previous Sam Altman project, which is pretty relevant when discussing a current Sam Altman project.

The story really had nothing to do with Sam Altman.

"I have a pre-interview story..."

Re: Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

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What mechanism prevents the government from “un-person-ing” someone if Worldcoin was used as the global identity system?

Obviously the government can stop issuing services to a certain ID, but being run on a decentralized computing platform (plan is an Ethereum layer 2 I believe) means that they cannot stop you from interacting with other governments or with third parties.

Other than everything that they can do today to prevent you from interacting with other governments or with third parties like imprisoning you or worst.

Re: Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

#124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not clear whether or not he talked to Sam Altman in his/her "pre-interview". If I had a pre-interview for a job at Amazon, does that mean I have a Jeff Bezos story?

Well, more accurately, an anecdote about a previous Sam Altman project, which is pretty relevant when discussing a current Sam Altman project.

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Re: Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

#125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, more accurately, an anecdote about a previous Sam Altman project, which is pretty relevant when discussing a current Sam Altman project.

The story really had nothing to do with Sam Altman. "I have a pre-interview story..."

If someone had an anecdote about, say, interviewing at one of Elon Musk's earliest ventures, that's an Elon Musk story, especially if it tells you how the company is run.

Re: Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

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I would not trust someone who claims they are working on a project that benefits people. I would be less suspicious of someone working on a selfish project that might benefit people as a side effect.

Sam Altman's work on OpenAI is hard to characterize as selfish when he owns none of it and doesn't get paid for it.

Sure. Just don't look at the boats.

Re: Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

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I am going to be downvoted to death, but it is clear from last year events that Sam Altman is truly that kind of "Blade Runner/Robocop(1)"-like antagonist character that has a narcissistic drive to destroy the world just so he can show everybody he is saving it. (1) Pick your 80's Sci-Fi movie dystopia that fits here.

It seems unfair to attack someone so personally without providing neutrally presented evidence to support it

I feel theres plenty of evidence... he's a super rich public figure known to lie to get traction on his projects. He doesn't need your protection

Re: Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

#129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The story really had nothing to do with Sam Altman. "I have a pre-interview story..."

If someone had an anecdote about, say, interviewing at one of Elon Musk's earliest ventures, that's an Elon Musk story, especially if it tells you how the company is run.

I'd call that a story about interviewing at a venture that Elon Musk started. I certainly wouldn't call that a story about Elon Musk.

Let's be real here, this was a rather poor attempt at name dropping Sam. It also had nothing to do with Sam.

It also had nothing to do with how the company was run, which they'd really know very little about, given that it was a pre-interview. They turned the offer to continue down due to the concept, not how it was run.

If the person had described sitting down at an interview with Sam and discussing the way the company was run, then I'd call that a Sam story about how the company was run.

Did I walk through this slowly enough for you?

Re: Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

#130

I am going to be downvoted to death, but it is clear from last year events that Sam Altman is truly that kind of "Blade Runner/Robocop(1)"-like antagonist character that has a narcissistic drive to destroy the world just so he can show everybody he is saving it. (1) Pick your 80's Sci-Fi movie dystopia that fits here.

what evidence concretely?
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