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Sam’s strategy here is to create the sickness (ai) and sell the cure (worldcoin). This is a complete grifting double hedging scam.
How bravely they have transitioned into collecting our eyeball scans and courageously hoarding billions of dollars while the planet withers away. Technology has changed the world.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then you will likely end up with your eyes being scanned by a state and profit-seeking corporations — along with your private data. We need methods to identify who is a real person in the internet of the future, and it should be privacy-preserving and independent of the state.
In a democracy we're not subjugated to the state, the state is subjugated to us. Sure, they can trick people into licking their boots but the power is with the people. You can't rule over the dead and you can't rule without a head.
In the end, you will have created nothing of value. A single Renoir painting is worth more than all this nonsense.
I wonder how the world worked in the 1990s without such luminaries. The answer is: better!
What a nightmare this Sam Altman dude is
Can't someone just get their hands on one of these orbs and start uploading fake unique ids to their network? Surely it can't be impossible to generate a fake iris scan.
The only way to make sure nobody is abusing this would be to have trusted employees verify you're a real person, in which case why don't just start a non-profit in Switzerland or wherever that just runs a database of scans, what do you need this coin for?
This future was foretold in 1993: [ https://youtu.be/XoGkp7PPEfI ]
What is there to discourage desperate or ill-informed (or both) people from selling their World ID credentials to bad actors?
There are only 8 billion people on earth, so even if every single account were fake that's still a huge improvement over the status quo where someone can spin up 8 billion fake accounts in an hour.
This kind of headline would normally be torn apart by HN for being somewhat uncharitable for its word choice. But in this case, I'm sure the crypto angle will inspire a knee-jerk negative reaction. Instead, here are a few links for the curious, which explain how the techniques Worldcoin employs may be one of the only viable methods to generate a totally privacy-preserving form of internet native identification and Sy…
methods to generate a totally privacy-preserving form of internet native identification and Sybil resistance I thought Stefan Brands solved this over 20 years ago without scanning people's eyes.
is that a good place to start?
What I find even more dystopian is that there's already a black market for those digital eyeball credentials: > Meanwhile, a black market emerged on Chinese social media and ecommerce sites. Sellers were offering KYC verifications for the World App, which offers wallet and ID services. The credentials often come from developing countries like Cambodia and Kenya, according to social media posts. [1] [1] https://www.co…
Sam Altman more and more seems like a potential Bond villain.