Even if you assume good-intent from Sam Altman’s WorldCoin (I don’t, but let’s play dystopian’s advocate here), the problem they claim they are trying to solve is ultimately a category error:

The only UBI you need in a physical-resources constrained reality is deflation.

The only credit score system you need in an AI- is organic web-of-trust like emergent systems.

The solutions the WorldCoin team claims to be solving are only problems that exist in the delusional, paternalistic worldview of a technocrat.

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To me their good intent falls technologically on step 1.

They could give each person something akin to https://bitcoin-ring.com, add to Lightning infrastructure and voila - you have vastly simpler and better system.

But easier to raise venture capital on "proof of personhood" and usher cyberpunk nightmare scenario.

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Il surfe juste sur quelque chose que certains ont déjà notamment dans les grands aeroports du Monde . Je me demande même s'il ne va pas collaborer avec l'EU pour la monnaie numérique Cash + qui sortait en 2027

decadent state of post-peak-pre-fail-civilisations tend to give rise to extreme expressions of excess

some (most) are perversions and aberrations and others are works of lasting beauty

worldcoin and every other shitcoin are the former

bitcoin and nostr - the latter

If he isn’t already, Sam Altman will VC his way into genetics.

Mark it.

Kill that Shitcoin with fire.

So many technological proposals, so little understanding of human action and natural law.

Or maybe just evil. I tend to assume ignorance as long as possible.

Absolutely no use for that coin.

The Haber-Bosch method was used for war, to expand "lebensraum" as land was used for primary energy. Therefore agrarian land was a primary constraint of empire which morphed into cultural assumptions about expansion.

They could not imagine that the Haber-Bosch process made land grabs practically obsolete for the expansion of primary energy. Culture did not catch up.

Same is happening with AI now. Assumptions about labor, identity, etc, leading to strange "solutions" due to culture not catching up.

Futureshock.