What do I think about biometric proof of personhood?
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#2It's rare to find a technology that's so creepy & exploitative, yet also so fundamentally without utility.
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#3The link doesn't work for me. It does work with the "www." prefix: https://www.vitalik.ca/general/2023/07/24/biometric.html
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#4It's rare to find a technology that's so creepy & exploitative, yet also so fundamentally without utility.
Not that rare in the crypto space.
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#5"a decentralized proof-of-personhood solution"
Why and how is Worldcoin able to prove 'personhood'? Just spend five second thinking about if that is really what this is about. Why this phrasing?
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#6It's rare to find a technology that's so creepy & exploitative, yet also so fundamentally without utility.
It really checks every possible box for a list of “things that are terrible ideas for humanity to try”
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#7There needs to be decentralized ID using an open protocol with any vendor able to join. The quality of those vendors will be based upon which firms trust them. I do think blockchain makes sense here, because the trust layer is decentralized and the native cryptographic signing primitives means it can’t be spoofed nor manipulated in a proprietary database locked from the public.
No idea if world coin is a workable solution, but I would like to be able to conduct KYC a single time and then selectively reveal my information to necessary parties, ideally only as a confirmation rather than data transfer. Why I have to constantly scan my ID for various vendors is absurd.
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#8It's rare to find a technology that's so creepy & exploitative, yet also so fundamentally without utility.
The technology isn’t creepy or exploitive. That’s us. Humans.
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#9I defer to my favorite comment I've ever made on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28947742
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#10Buterin reminds me a little of string theorists in physics. There is a lot of intellect but they have chosen to chase something that doesn't produce anything really useful despite a ton of effort.