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What do you mean when you say scam? Are you claiming this is fraudulent in some way?
As in, the promises they claim are different from the actual results, and they know this as they are saying them. It is a con, like everything crypto.
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I think he's just out of touch. Here's another example: https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9y5n/the-people-building-a...
There is a certain degree of that for sure. These people really see themselves as “destroyers of worlds” when in fact they are becoming a but amusing in how they try to inflate their importance on the scene. But the sense of urgency cause by the supposed incoming terror, destitution, and despair seem to indicate these people would almost enjoy seeing it happen. Notice how their marketing doesnt focus as much on the b…
I don't think Worldcoin is the solution, but I'm interested in hearing what the rest of you think the solution to the bots-indistiguishable-to-humans problem could look like? Or should we just accept that the times of interacting over internet with strangers you can believe to be humans is over? The only idea I see is for some certificates handed out by government to citizens and I absolutely hate it even in a democr…
> Or should we just accept that the times of interacting over internet with strangers you can believe to be humans is over? IMO, you can end that sentence after "internet".
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Wait, the biometric information are only used for the creation of the wallet, not the later usage? Then isn't this scam? What is the actual value of using biometric for this?
Why does that make it a scam? "Scam" implies some kind of fraud or lie, I don't believe worldcoin has ever claimed biometrics were required for later usage. The value of the biometric is in ensuring a ~ more fair ~ airdrop. With bitcoin the people who discovered it first and who were able to run miners received an outsized reward, and consequently the distribution of bitcoin is extremely unequal. The usage of biometr…
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There is a certain degree of that for sure. These people really see themselves as “destroyers of worlds” when in fact they are becoming a but amusing in how they try to inflate their importance on the scene. But the sense of urgency cause by the supposed incoming terror, destitution, and despair seem to indicate these people would almost enjoy seeing it happen. Notice how their marketing doesnt focus as much on the b…
It's something that I noticed a long time ago in various subcultures that focus on preparing for some variant of "end times". I think that if you've put a ton of time, money, and effort into preparing for a thing to happen, you begin to want that thing to happen (even if unconsciously). If it doesn't, then all that time, money, and effort was wasted.
In addition, the USA needs to create a single Civilian Social Platform just like we did the highway system. We need to validate people based upon their citizenship, and label people based upon their relative status to actual stakeholders in the nation.
I am seeing a pattern here and I am starting to believe that Sam Altman is an Accelerationist: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism A lot of his actions, investments and marketing strategy seem to point in that direction.
I hope that the tech billionaires are simply blundering towards the destruction of society, rather than intentionally trying to do so with something like Effective Accelerationism. That would certainly fit with Hanlon's Razor. I have a simple theory that tech billionaires are at least partly influenced by the sci-fi of their youth. While some of the older tech billionaires were brought up on utopian sci-fi like Star…
Also known as the Torment Nexus.
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> anyone, human or otherwise - can use that wallet. But there are only 8 billion people, which is literally an infinite improvement over the status quo.
Yes, but it also assumes that the orb is perfect, and never hacked or reverse-engineered to generate completely arbitrary quantities of these keys. You're putting an awful lot of trust in this for a 'trustless' system.
I don't know what this is and I'm not even going to read the take-down article. If you slap "coin" onto the name of anything , I'll run a mile from it. I just dropped in to say that. bb.