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Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse

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Re: Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse

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Post by 93po »

mrguyorama wrote: post #126
hrdwdmrbl wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, the article and this whole comments thread is very intellectually dishonest. Disclosure: I’m like, 70% optimistic about the project. I don’t believe that the team are lying. Anyway, as with many things, time will tell. I wouldn’t get worked up over it. If it fails it’s pretty inconsequential.

>I don’t believe that the team are lying Why not? >If it fails it’s pretty inconsequential. Definitely, it only collected the biometrics of thousands of desperate people into the hands of private people who work with law enforcement agencies everywhere to provide surveillance as a service.

You’re misrepresenting what it’s collecting and you’re part of the problem in this discussion. Worldcoin isn’t storing anything that could be used by any other entity. It doesn’t store biometrics and there isn’t a way to use the store information to know what the iris looked like that generated it.

Re: Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse

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Post by ineptech »

everybodyknows wrote: post #119
maxwell wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://generalsemantics.org/resources/documents/gsb-65-wils...

Can you provide a synopsis of this lecture transcript?

It's a speech by the author Robert Anton Wilson discussing the work of Alfred Korzybski, who helped to explain and popularize the map/territory distinction and how it relates to the philosophy of science.

I'm a huge fan of Wilson and Korzybski, the ideas Wilson discusses in this lecture definitely changed my life and the way that I think about science, but even I would caution that it's not all that relevant to the discussion here.

Re: Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse

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Post by rideontime »

93po wrote: post #148
unboxingelf wrote: post #22

Worldcoin is simply another pre-mined, VC backed shitcoin - albeit worst because they’re building a biometrics database. - VCs dump money in (SBF, a16z, etc) - 25% of the coins are kept for the founders + investors How many times do people have to get burned on these scams? Obviously Sam has some street cred with the govt else they would have pulled him infront of congress like when zuck tried to launch Libre.

WC isn’t doing any of the traditional shitcoin behavior. They ban discussion about price speculation. There’s no pre-sales. There’s no sales at all until the coin actually launches. One of the major premises of worldcoin is UBI - literally giving money away. I genuinely believe Sam Altman started WC with others for altruistic reasons

Not giving money away, giving "worldcoin" away, whatever the hell that is.

Re: Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse

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Post by chaxor »

Finnucane wrote: post #92
brian_cloutier wrote: post #59

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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.

Everything in cryptography is a scam.

Cool.

Ssh is a scam. Got it.

Re: Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse

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Post by brucethemoose2 »

wmf wrote: post #66
brucethemoose2 wrote: post #40

A critical part of Worldcoin is its association with AI hype: https://news.google.com/search?q=Worldcoin%20ai&hl=en-US&gl=... > Investors are recognizing the opportunities presented by AI-based projects that leverage blockchain technology. ...Of course, this is total nonsense. But perception is everything for crypto IPOs.

It's worse than that: Sam Altman is selling a solution to a problem he created.

He didn't really create the problem, and Worldcoin is not a solution.

Re: Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse

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Post by tamimio »

sergiotapia wrote: post #149

VC shitcoin. Bitcoin is the only real, legitimate cryptocurrency because it's not owned by anyone. People getting into worldcoin are just people trying to get their free $ like a free Temu counpon code.

>Bitcoin is the only real,

I will add Monero to that list

Re: Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse

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Post by 93po »

hrdwdmrbl wrote: post #109
lazzlazzlazz wrote: post #46

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Yeah, the article and this whole comments thread is very intellectually dishonest. Disclosure: I’m like, 70% optimistic about the project. I don’t believe that the team are lying. Anyway, as with many things, time will tell. I wouldn’t get worked up over it. If it fails it’s pretty inconsequential.

Every single criticism I see about worldcoin gets something fundamentally wrong about how it works

Re: Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse

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Post by 93po »

raffraffraff wrote: post #101

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.

This is valid criticism and it’s unfortunate that they chose this name for sure. It results in knee jerk reactions from people that don’t understand it and make assumptions
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