Did Sam Altman forget to bribe the right people? Because if he would bribe I would understand why governments would allow a private entity to steal data, content, ip, and identities en masse, as it currently happens in some jurisdictions.
Police raid Worldcoin warehouse in Nairobi
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#42Taxation and control of the money supply is the single most powerful and fundamental right reserved by a government, and it's backed up by lots and lots of guns.
Godspeed with changing that, crypto bros.
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#43> On Thursday, Worldcoin said it is planning to implement crowd-control measures and collaborate with the government before resuming work. What does this even mean?
In essence, they aspire to be a Palantir competitor.
CIA as a Service
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#44> On Thursday, Worldcoin said it is planning to implement crowd-control measures and collaborate with the government before resuming work. What does this even mean?
It means too many people were queueing to have their biometrics taken.
More likely to get the $50 for doing so, then never use it
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#45I really don't want to have anything to do with crypto, and the fact that Sam Altman is pushing it in 2023 makes both him and OpenAI look sketchy. Especially crypto with a weird biometric eye scanner.
Yeah, if I talk to a 'normie' and explain that chatGPT and OpenAI are nefariously plotting regulatory capture most will roll their eyes at me.
If I say "The founder of OpenAI is scanning people's eyeballs to build a database" that sets off real alarm bells.
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#46I'm waiting for religious zealots to start smashing those Orbs. Looking at long lines of people waiting to stare into one is enough to make me (very briefly) wonder if my crazy uncle might have had a point with his take on Revelations.
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#47Why would Worldcoin beta-test in Kenya vs SV if not in an attempt to fly under the radar of scrutiny – whether that's market scrutiny from the SEC/etc or privacy scrutiny under GDPR and other legislation well understood by SV lawyers. Good on Kenya for holding Worldcoin to account. It'll be interesting to see what they do as they enter the "and find out" phase.
Worldcoin specifically excludes US citizens from holding the token, presumably to escape some legal or regulatory issues.
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#48Half-baked effort to hypnotize the global south. A GPT would be presented as the totalitarian “superintelligence”, and non-native speakers would have a hard time challenging any of it.
This comment confuses me. What exactly was the half baked effort to hypnotize the global south? Raiding Worldcoin?
Worldcoin/OpenAI
I would bet sama is just an asset, and is not literally planning (or perhaps even aware of) this.
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#49"Worldcoin, founded by US tech entrepreneur Sam Altman, offers free crypto tokens to people who agree to have their eyeballs scanned." Can anyone say how much each of those crypto tokens are worth in $USD?
No, because they'll fluctuate wildly.
But you can generally bet on a trend towards zero.
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#50I'm waiting for religious zealots to start smashing those Orbs. Looking at long lines of people waiting to stare into one is enough to make me (very briefly) wonder if my crazy uncle might have had a point with his take on Revelations.
If they can put bounties on eyes, orb bounties are fair game?