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Hilariously, this is the second Sam that wants to collect everyones iris's for nefarious purposes
by yosame 11mo ago
Hilariously, this is the second Sam that wants to collect everyones iris's for nefarious purposes
- tern 11mo agoBig difference between a hash for use as an attestation (proof of humanity) and a digital ID associated with your name
- tern 11mo agoThis is the most maddening topic I've experienced in recent times. My guess is it's the ghost of ww2. Anything that looks or smells like a definitive reduction of a human being to numbers is to be opposed, regardless of utility. What you are choosing, instead, is the management of the phenomenon you're trying to avoid by corporations—more or less emergent feudalism. Consider the options: a corporation knows everything about you vs. no entity knows any information about you except for whether you're eligible for the service being provided, and that you exist. The former is the current state of affairs. The latter, I think, is a better state of affairs.
- qingcharles 11mo agoThis WorldCoin image will forever live rent free in my head: https://www.crikey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/08/New-Project67.jpg https://www.crikey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/08...
- bigyabai 11mo ago"How does it work?" "It's magic. All technology is."
- joomla199 11mo agoGiven that we don’t know why electromagnetism exists, this is basically true for many technologies.
- hoppp 11mo agoWe don't know why the world itself exists so everything is magic
- KumaBear 11mo agoThere doesn’t need to be a why the world exists. It does that’s all there is to know. There doesn’t have to be purpose just an explanation of how not why
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- hnbad 11mo agoGP probably meant "how" as in "By what mechanisms" not "why" as in "For what purposes". So "why" as in "what makes it do what it does".
- Joker_vD 11mo agoWell, it does what it does because it's shaped like itself.
- hnbad 11mo agoSure but that's somewhat tautological and not very helpful if you seek an empirical or predictive understanding of it. The question really is what complexity of the system (meaning: all of it) is irreducible and what can at least be approximated with simplified models. You may balk at this as being ultimately futile but our entire existence is built on trying to break apart and simplify the world we exist in, starting with the first cut between self/inside and other/outside (i.e. "this is me" vs "this is where I am" - a distinction that becomes immensely relevant after the moment of birth). Language itself only functions because we can create categories it can operate on - regardless of whether those categories consistenly map to reality itself.
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- arlcode 11mo agoWhat exactly am I looking at?
- Nursie 11mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain) A Sam Altman project which seemingly popped up out of nowhere, and offered people free money in exchange for biometric registration on the network, in a lot of countries all over the world. It seemed to be an attempt to set up some sort of global electronic ID system and currency all in one. That silver sphere is an iris scanner, IIRC. Got shut down pretty hard in a bunch of places as a potentially illegal invasion of privacy.
- CaptainZapp 11mo ago>A Sam Altman project which seemingly popped up out of nowhere, and offered people free money Was it free money? I recall that it was some shitcoin token paid out, which may or may not be worth something. I could be wrong, of course.
- Nursie 11mo agoIt was 'worldcoin'. And yes I used the term 'money' very loosely there. Apparently the token was only offered in some countries, and in some places where it was offered, that was considered enough of a bribe to render void the informed consent to collect and process private data.
- ben_w 11mo agoDepending on degree of cynicism*, both takes are compatible with what was observable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain) * For what it's worth, my cynicism for Worldcoin and that eye scanner thing is currently about 7/10: moderately high but could be much worse. By comparison, I'm 9/10 in cynicism for Facebook and 10/10 in cynicism for everything Musk does except SpaceX, my SpaceX cynicism is only 5/10.
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- tjpnz 11mo agoLooks suspiciously like the robot that pumped Princess Leia full of drugs.
- rob74 11mo agoIn this case, I suspect it's more Uncle Donald (or Aunt Kristi, but she usually doesn't do anything without Uncle Donald's approval).