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Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

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Re: Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

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How to Serve Man.

In case anyone is not aware, this is a reference to an episode of The Twilight Zone[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zon...

Perspective is strange. I suspect we're not far from a time when a show such as the Brady Bunch will be as bizarre to the modern mind as the most severe Twilight Zone episode was in its time.

Re: Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

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How does scanning someone's eyeballs help anyway? It's not unique if its stolen. Then what?

The plan with Worldcoin is to use these unique IDs to airdrop a UBI.

That's the marketing bullshit. It's simpler that that.

He's selling weapons to both sides, the ai bullshit spam machine gun, and the anti spam identity verification system.

He knows what he's doing.

Re: Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

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Sometimes I think we are in a kind of civilization downgrade, but no one wants to talk about it. This initiative by Sam, proves my (not so wacky) theory.

Funny though is that if you share this kind of stuff on Linkedin, people just look away. Indeed, it's not a place to say what you think: it's all about look nice and please anyone who's capable of giving you a job, even if it's some Big Tech dictator.

Re: Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How to Serve Man.

In case anyone is not aware, this is a reference to an episode of The Twilight Zone[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zon...

It's also riffed on in Treehouse of Horror on the Simpsons, but I am sad to say that episode now happened closer to the Twilight Zone episode than to today. We crossed that bridge in 2018.

Re: Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

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I remember when Minority Report came out how many people got sucked in by the Tom Cruise and the Max von Sidow vibes, the Oscar-winning histrionics of the imperiled character, or the sexy special effects and completely missed the subtext around all of this. That everywhere you went, They knew who you are and what you do. I was shocked that people I talked to didn't notice that every vertical surface in the mall had a…

Well, the every wall is just for movie visuals. In reality it will be projected right onto your retina or, using neuralink, right into the visual cortex or may be even deeper than that.

Our researchers have found that we can sell up to 80% of the user's visual field without triggering seizures.

Re: Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

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post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In case anyone is not aware, this is a reference to an episode of The Twilight Zone[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zon...

Perspective is strange. I suspect we're not far from a time when a show such as the Brady Bunch will be as bizarre to the modern mind as the most severe Twilight Zone episode was in its time.

The Twilight Zone is a rebootable property and we have been overdue.

Shit, I just looked and I forgot Jordan Peele took a stab at it. During Covid. He should get a do-over.

Re: Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

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>... The ban, effective from Saturday, aims to ensure individuals' free will remains uninfluenced...

As a happy worldcoiner I'd much rather be able to use my free will to sign up with who I like rather than having ill informed government officials try to ban transactions between informed, otherwise happy adults because why not stick your foot in other people's business?

Re: Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

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The sad thing is that this really does solve a problem that GenAI is creating. Sam Altman is selling the poison as well as the cure. I think we will eventually all need to join social networks that are guaranteed to be composed of real humans, and for that we'll need a way to prove someone is a real human. I think passports/government IDs are a good enough solution for this and we don't need to be scanning people's i…

How does scanning someone's eyeballs help anyway? It's not unique if its stolen. Then what?

The purpose of the scanning is so you are limited to one account per human rather than being able to open loads. It's not used as ID after the account is open.

Re: Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

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post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The plan with Worldcoin is to use these unique IDs to airdrop a UBI.

That's the marketing bullshit. It's simpler that that. He's selling weapons to both sides, the ai bullshit spam machine gun, and the anti spam identity verification system. He knows what he's doing.

I'm not sure either is quite accurate. When you get an account you get given worldcoins on a regular basis which are basically another crypto shitcoin. They have plans to use it as a payment and app ecosystem but that hasn't really taken off. The anti spam identity thing hasn't really even started either.
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