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U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

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Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

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Post by taeric »

This is an odd topic. On the one hand, we do seem to have a problem where attention is hijacked by engagement farming. On the other, we also know of problems from draconian management.

I would actually like it if we had something that could say, only promote things on my feeds that are "liked" by people within a geographic radius of me. At the least, mute things that are getting pumped from hostile regions.

I just don't know that I see how this can get us there, though? Seems far more likely that it would lead to more abuse.

Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

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Post by Teever »

theplatman wrote: post #10

so we're trusting the guy who created tech to make it easier for bots to exist on the internet to then sell us the solution to fix the problem he made worse?

I saw someone in another thread put it quite succinctly:

Shit in the pool then sell the nets to clean it up.

Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

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Post by noir_lord »

red-iron-pine wrote: post #29
giancarlostoro wrote: post #15

Sam Altman doing his hardest to become more hated than Larry Ellison I see.

do not anthropomorphize sam altman

No one who has watched him talk would. (And yes I know the origin of the reference but at least Ellison doesn’t pretend).

Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

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Post by jacquesm »

gentleman11 wrote: post #21
greenchair wrote: post #17

his mark of the beast attempt # ?

Weirdly, peter thiel is going on tour right now promoting the idea that the antichrist is coming and may be an organization or social movement rather than a person. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I only skimmed the articles about it

'And how do you know this is the case?' : 'Receipts, mostly.'.

Re: U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

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Post by simonw »

AlexandrB wrote: post #11

I can't believe this idiotic project is running so long after the "blockchain for everything" mania ended. Seems like they can't believe it either since they changed their name from "Worldcoin" to just "World.

I'd love to see some credible reporting on the graveyard of blockchain projects.

So many obviously stupid ideas cropped up on the blockchain in 2021-2022. How many of those are still going concerns?

I guess the problem with blockchain stuff is that often there's no servers to shut down or other clear indication that a project has failed - presumably you can look at on-chain data to see if people have stopped trading various backing tokens, but does trade ever clearly stop or are there always bots exchanging tokens back and forth?

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