Police raid Worldcoin warehouse in Nairobi

Post by __MatrixMan__ » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 4:57 PM UTC

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I used to defend crypto a lot (now just a little). Especially the UBI attempts. But no. World coin has always looked like a thinly veiled attempt to generate a biometric dataset which would later be used against its users. I just don't know who its audience was supposed to be. If you're suspicious enough of fiat to want this kind of escape hatch, how can you simultaneously be trusting enough to embrace a system that…

Because 90% of the people who got into crypto did not give a fuck about "trust" or any of the nonsense blockchains claim they do and only wanted to hit the lottery on the next coin going to the moon.

Post by jabradoodle » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 7:59 PM UTC

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Governments already exist. To try and upend them by replacing their system of personhood and currency is in effect the tech-bro version of a mutiny. It may seem ridiculous but that's precisely what crypto is. An attempt to replace central banks and governments. Tech companies have grown very powerful, and they see an opportunity to create a world-wide "private government" and they're going for it. This won't be the l…

Neat, so are all world governments going to band together and implement UBI? Do you really think that waiting for all world governments to come together and figure this out is the right move here? I admire the optimism (I think of myself as a pretty optimistic person too), but you've got to realize that there are reasonable people on this planet who think that waiting for governments to fix this is probably not going…

Post by dopidopHN » Wed, Aug 09, 2023, 1:43 AM UTC

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You can opt in for storage of the iris image itself to ensure that further modification of the hash algorithm do not force you to re-scan you eye.

But then your actual biometrics can get taken by the government, as illustrated in OP raid on warehouses. Or Worldcoin leadership could use your biometrics for whatever they want e.g. stalking as done at Uber or forking their coin to fund a new ICO.

Post by 93po » Wed, Aug 09, 2023, 5:10 PM UTC

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There is a lot of fraud with current methods of charity in developing countries. Worldcoin is working to address that.

why are you shilling worldcoin on this website?

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 09, 2023, 5:23 PM UTC

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That's not what he said. He said people that won't trust any platform [regardless of the reassurances, auditing, open source nature, etc] are welcome to not sign up. I assume the somewhat pointed subtext of what Sam said is also that if you're going to be a hater no matter what, he doesn't seem the point in engaging with you.

As much as the whole worldcoin thing is bizarre and dystopian, I do sort of enjoy the nouveau nihilistic take that you can’t trust or believe anything anyone says anyways, so if trust matters to you, you might want to stay away from the digital future.