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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 pocksuppet »

2ndorderthought wrote: post #5

World id, meta verifier, how many other military funded establishments are pushing to require mass surveillance of everyone doing anything. Meanwhile their bots run rampant all over the Internet without any concern for anyone else's infrastructure, copyright, or ip. The irony...

You'd be silly not to, if you think about it. There's demand for ID verification, and don't you want to be the one with copies of everyone's documents, instead of the other guy? Do you want to make the money, or do you want Peter Thiel to make the money?

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

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Post by jochem9 »

red-iron-pine wrote: post #30
2ndorderthought wrote: post #5

World id, meta verifier, how many other military funded establishments are pushing to require mass surveillance of everyone doing anything. Meanwhile their bots run rampant all over the Internet without any concern for anyone else's infrastructure, copyright, or ip. The irony...

so take down the internet. or take down their company. or just stop using the internet will posting this on forums that are run by these same people actually be able to drive change?

Yes.

Your message needs to find other people. The how is irrelevant, it just shapes and transmits it.

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

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Post by watwut »

taeric wrote: post #31

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 do…

Or like, have chronological feed of accounts user follows. Simple. Produces less outrage tho, so it is a no go.

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

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Post by pesus »

booleandilemma wrote: post #16

I think we need less technology. Can we have a de-tech movement? Life-saving tech is fine but enough is enough with software, AI, surveillance, etc. It's too much. It's been too much for the past twenty years or so.

It's already becoming a trend amongst the youngsters, though I can't say how widespread it is. I think it's inevitable and long overdue.

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

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Post by traderj0e »

simonw wrote: post #40
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…

Transactions on a blockchain have a cost, so it's kinda hard to sustain faking usage. Unless they count random bogus blockchains.
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