Worldcoin Says Will Allow Companies, Governments To Use Its ID System (reuters.com) 32
Worldcoin will expand its operations to sign up more users globally and aims to allow other organisations to use its iris-scanning and identity-verifying technology, a senior manager for the company behind the project told Reuters. From the report: "We are on this mission of building the biggest financial and identity community that we can," said Ricardo Macieira, general manager for Europe at Tools For Humanity, the San Francisco and Berlin-based company behind the project.
Macieira said Worldcoin would continue rolling out operations in Europe, Latin America, Africa and "all the parts of the world that will accept us." Worldcoin's website mentions various possible applications, including distinguishing humans from artificial intelligence, enabling "global democratic processes" and showing a "potential path" to universal basic income, although these outcomes are not guaranteed. Most people interviewed by Reuters at sign-up sites in Britain, India and Japan last week said they were joining in order to receive the 25 free Worldcoin tokens the company says verified users can claim.
Macieira said Worldcoin would continue rolling out operations in Europe, Latin America, Africa and "all the parts of the world that will accept us." Worldcoin's website mentions various possible applications, including distinguishing humans from artificial intelligence, enabling "global democratic processes" and showing a "potential path" to universal basic income, although these outcomes are not guaranteed. Most people interviewed by Reuters at sign-up sites in Britain, India and Japan last week said they were joining in order to receive the 25 free Worldcoin tokens the company says verified users can claim.
One day (Score:4)
We will be smart enough to just throw scammers in a pit.
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"There's a special place in Hell for people like that, and it's a management position."
Some of the people, all of the time.
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FUCK THAT...
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The psychology of True Believers [amazon.com] doesn't make any real world sense. In fact, making sense actively interferes with recruiting for a cult. The insanity is what keeps cult members isolated from normal people, which is critical to keep them from coming to their senses.
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Both sides absolutely believe the other is in a cult, and from their point-of-view they're right?
It's a meaningless distinction with no real grounding in anything. Everyone is a "true believer" when it comes to politics, especially looking at people from the opposing side.
If someone on the opposite end of the spectrum tells you you're "not making sense" are you gonna believe them? Are you gonna accept their evidence? Do you think they have real facts behind them? The answer, usually and unfortunately, is n
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And I think you are simply in a cult of reactionary anti-establishmentism. You will look at whatever you don't like or deem establishment and take the opposite position because your entire though process resolves around those things that which are to, immutable. Like a religous person can't change their opinion about god and remain religous you are incentivized to believe that and consider yourself the outsider instead.
You are as the clip shows, "dug in" the same as the rest of us.
If you think that char
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And I think
Based on the rest of your reply, I see no evidence of that.
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Both sides absolutely believe the other is in a cult, and from their point-of-view they're right?
From any sane, rational, objective point of view, they're right.
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Well, depends on if you believe there are "objective" means of one human judging another. Does that delve into areas of metaethics or moral antirealism?
Someone might look at me and think I am in some sort of cult, do I take them at their word? Is it objective? Noone who knows me thinks that? The better answer is nobody is actually and everyone is just people.
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Do you drink the red Kool-Aid, or the blue Kool-Aid? Cuz clearly, you regularly slurp up one or the other.
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Figures (Score:3)
It figures that the backstabbing asshole Sam Altman, who is responsible for taking "Open" AI from a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit to a for-profit umbrella corp, locking down all its research and models, and making multi-billion dollar deals to have access to its locked-down API, would be the one to tell citizens they can get shitcoins if they upload high-resolution photos of their fucking eyes.
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Worldcoin says (Score:3)
"We are desperately trying to become relevant."
Hmm... (Score:1)
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Eh... you could at least try for the usual numbers people think are funny... .69 or 420 or 666.
How generous (Score:2)
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Seems to me that Gov't is trying to make more Gov't, desires of the taxpayers be damned.
Not interested... (Score:2)
I'm not in the least bit interested in using a centralized system designed for control, by and for the people pushing the most draconian totalitarianism in the history of man.
That doesn't seem like something which would work out well for me, or anyone else.
Of course, I'm not the intended customer here, and will not likely be presented with a democratic choice in the matter.
It Won't Take Long... (Score:2)
...for Worldcoin to unravel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
tl;dw: the company is using poverty-stricken regions to bootstrap this biometric ID system with the promise of a UBI in the form of cryptocurrency.
The money for the UBI is going to have to come from somewhere...and I sincerely doubt Worldcoin has the kind of backers who are going to give UBI-levels-of-money to the company/ All the early movers on cryptocurrency got burned with Celsius and FTX and BitConnect.
What a great idea! (Score:1)
Hell (Score:2)
Ubidollar project (Score:3)
This is similar to Ubidollar project on facebook dot com slash ubidollar
However Ubidollar allows anyone to stake a claim to an actually Universal Basic Income cryptocoin generated on a regular schedule by just posting a message in the group, which creates an identity-linked timestamp, which will then be converted into coin based on the timestamp once it reaches critical mass.
The Eye of Sauron will See you now (Score:2)