Related: Sam Altman saying himself that users who are concerned about privacy should not sign up:
Police raid Worldcoin warehouse in Nairobi
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#62CryptoBro Sam Altman will have to deal with goat eyes being scanned in as well pretty soon
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#63I 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.
Sadly, I liked the original idea behind this, and thought it was one of the few actually-interesting applications of crypto currency. If you can (somehow) solve the unique identity problem, you can design a Universal Basic Income using a crypto-currency as backing. The Unique ID problem isn't solved by the blockchain, though, so it ends up being a total mess.
What does this mean? You already have a unique identity as far as the government are concerned, and who would pay UBI if not the government.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
More likely to get the $50 for doing so, then never use it
Maybe, but you shouldn't underestimate the popularity of mobile banking/money transfer apps in East Africa. If it's easier and more secure (against literal telecom hacks, we don't need to get into crypto debates) than the alternative it very plausibly can get users.
That is an argument against it. If they already solved the problem with mobile payments adding blockchain to the mix doesnt add any value.
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#65I'm actually surprised how rapidly this went downhill exactly how people were warning it would.
2 weeks after launch and a government is already able to disrupt their operations? Liz Truss lasted as Prime Minister for longer than that.
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#66I know a lot of people will use this to say that blockchain bad, and that is up to you. But really biometrics collection has little to do with blockchain. Worldcoin is firstly a company that collects biometrics and secondly they decided to use an immutable ledger to record the data (although they claim that it is only hashes). That aside if I wanted to record a bunch of hashes for perpetuity blockchain would actually…
Blockchain would not be the right tech if you don't need decentralised trust.
Write once media on a server is what you want.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sadly, I liked the original idea behind this, and thought it was one of the few actually-interesting applications of crypto currency. If you can (somehow) solve the unique identity problem, you can design a Universal Basic Income using a crypto-currency as backing. The Unique ID problem isn't solved by the blockchain, though, so it ends up being a total mess.
What does this mean? You already have a unique identity as far as the government are concerned, and who would pay UBI if not the government.
As with all crypto ideas, I believe this starts with "If we wanted to take government out of the picture..."
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#68I 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.
He was always sketchy, and the whole way he handles OpenAI is also extremely sketchy with pushing for regulation that in effect protects OpenAI's products against competition and forms a soft-to-hard government monopoly on AI (the exact opposite of OpenAI's initial mission).
And yet, they did bring us GPT, and inspired the world to go in this direction, including the open-source models by Meta.
History is always messy like this. And another proof of this will be if this tech becomes the beginning of the end of our civilization, but that's just me thinking out loud here.
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#69Will the Kenyan government now have access to the biometric data collected by Worldcoin?
Well, Worldcoin claims the data captured by the orb (face & iris scan) is deleted after the corresponding ID is generated from it.
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#70Why does this have to be a crypto currency? My ssn is not a currency and it is used for id. Why can't it be like that, a database of id's? Should we make our drivers licenses or passports into crypto currencies? What is the advantage?