First Sam creates the situation where distinguishing humans from bots on the web becomes harder, then asks everyone to trust him with biometric data to work around the problem he created. Everyone loses, except for him.
Reminder that Worldcoin is a know scam, banned in several countries due to privacy concerns.
Altman came into my awareness because of WorldCoin, and that effort is what made me view him with deep suspicion. It's like he went out of his way to do a very creepy thing in the creepiest possible way.
I wouldn't be happy to use any "identity token" like that, but there's exactly zero chance that I'd be willing to use WorldCoin. I don't think they're anywhere near trustworthy enough as a company, and my trust in Altman is even lower.
If having some kind of identity token becomes nonoptional, then I want it to be run by the government -- they already have my identity information anyway so at least that way my surface area hasn't expanded.
I thought Zuckerberg is a blowhard for renaming Facebook to Meta but calling a company "World" really takes the cake. Will Altman go after people using the word "World" without paying a license fee?
Do they want to keep a centralized database of everybody's eyeballs? I'm not sure I'm interested in this. I'm predicting people getting their eyes gauged out in high stakes robberies.
but then how will we prove that you aren’t a GPSlop bot?? If you don’t put your eyes in this database we’ll just have to debank you for your own good. Last thing we need is AI bots emptying out people’s bank accounts right?
He really makes it easy to search for this project online. A good thing in this case, if you ask me.
If you like a single online identity, perhaps consider https://nostr.com/, where you can just throw your key pair away and start fresh. Unlike in Sam creepy vision.
The problem of identification is a real one for hundreds of millions of people and it has nothing to do with AI. What's shocking to me is how much people aren't pizza gating these eye scanning orbs when the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ID2020 which is a good faith attempt to solve the real ID problem for the right reasons in a practical way has been a favourite of conspiracy nutjobs for years https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articles/mosip-digital...
> What's shocking to me is how much people aren't pizza gating these eye scanning orbs
That’s an interesting point. It got me thinking and I think it might be related to the (for lack of a better term) “revolutionary messaging”. What I mean is that conspiracy theorists are guided by a mindset of revolution: It’s always about how the status quo is constructed to fool and control you, thus the truth is by necessity a revolutionary idea known by a select few who must rise up to fight the tyrannical ideas and brainwashing of the world government.
So scammers appeal to that notion. Instead of trying to work with others to enact real change to the systems in place, they hype themselves as lone wolves that are proven right because others disagree with their ideas.
It’s hard to make a conspiracy theory against something which already defines itself by being outside the norm and fighting the status quo. Cryptocurrencies fall squarely in that.
And the quest for the most embiggened company name continues:
1) Google embiggened its name to "Alphabet" (which encompasses anything).
2) Facebook felt jealous and embiggened its name to "Meta" (one layer above
"Alphabet").
3) Musk embiggened Twitter to X, a variable that can stand for anything,
so it can be construed to encompass both "Alphabet" and "Meta".
4) Altman embiggens Worldcoin to World.
"World" is actually quite modest, and reminds one of the IPO of WorldOnline in 2000, which was a flop and predated the stock market crash by a couple of months.
That’s an interesting observation, but I think your conclusions are wrong. The reasons for those names (apart from rebranding to change people’s perceptions of the companies) are documented.
Alphabet makes sense because Google has a ton of services with different names, many of them often represented by the first letter in their name.
Meta is for “Metaverse”. Zuckerberg was infamously all in on that idea at the time.
X is a name Musk has obsessed with and tried to push for years, at least since the Paypal days, even naming one of his children with the letter.
World is trying to hide the direct cryptocurrency affiliation (though the coin still exists) as it pivots.
Reminder that Worldcoin is a know scam, banned in several countries due to privacy concerns.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldcoin#Legal_and_regulatory...
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