LeoJul 27, 2023
Doctor M. Popular
POV: When Worldcoin starts advertising their dystopian bullshit in your neighborhood.
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Show threadDoctor M. PopularJul 27, 2023

Worldcoin offers users $20 worth of a new cryptocurrency in exchange for scanning that user's retina and adding them to a database. Their business model is mass surveillance and cryptocurrency wrapped into one.

So far, the launch has been a disaster: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-crypto-eyeball-scanning-orb-problems

Sam Altman, the founder of Worldcoin AND the CEO of OpenAI, says that the rise of AI is why we need tools to verify who is human.

Yes, Sam is selling us one tool to "protect" us from the harm his other tool is causing.

Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Promised Them Free Crypto For An Eyeball Scan. Now They Feel Robbed.

The Sam Altman–founded company Worldcoin says it aims to alleviate global poverty, but so far it has angered the very people it claims to be helping.

BuzzFeed News
Show threadDoctor M. PopularJul 27, 2023

“As a Worldcoin Operator, you'll earn money for everyone you sign up with an Orb. You'll build your own team, run your operations and help get people excited about starting their Worldcoin journey.”- https://worldcoin.org/be-a-worldcoin-operator

I guess they went with an orb because a pyramid was too on the nose. #Worldcoin #MLM #PyramidScheme

Become a Worldcoin Orb Operator

Help shape the future of privacy-preserving proof-of-personhood technology.

Show threadDoctor M. PopularJul 28, 2023

If Worldcoin ever pops up in your neighborhood, you should print out these labels too. You can find copies of these labels on IMGUR https://imgur.com/a/m4161TQ

Feel free to modify them in any way. I'd also love to hear any suggestions for edits or new labels.

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Show threadBill, organizer of stuffJul 27, 2023

@docpop I thought this thing happened and was mostly a failure like two years ago... They're back, apparently?

(citation: https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/21/sam-altmans-worldcoin-wants-to-scan-every-humans-eyeball-and-give-them-crypto-in-exchange/ )

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Show threadDoctor M. PopularJul 27, 2023
@wcbdata Worldcoin has been a complete disaster and would have disappeared years ago, if the owner had found such huge success through his role at OpenAI.
Now he has endless piles of money to throw at this project. Worldcoin will never catch on organically, but we saw with Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX how easy it is to bribe officials if you have enough money.
Show threadcytokine_stormJul 27, 2023
@docpop @wcbdata i mean bonus points for essentially stealing an idea facebook tried with its own currency like a decade ago (and failed).
Show threadlunchyJul 28, 2023
@cytokine_storm @docpop @wcbdata libra was only 2018... which feels way longer than 5 years ago
Show threadlunchyJul 28, 2023
@wcbdata @docpop they have limitless sam altman money to astroturf sketchy infrastructure that they control into existence
Show threadAsh DoyleJul 27, 2023
@docpop Scam in a scam. Nothing but scams all the way down.
Show threadanomalocarisJul 27, 2023
@docpop As soon as the orb talk starts, you can count me out. Get cursed by a warlock once, shame on me, and so on.
Show threadsomeguyjgJul 27, 2023
@docpop it's like they just went to the website of an mlm and copy pasted their hiring page.
Show threadCREATEIKAJul 27, 2023
@docpop I had the exact same thought when reading the BuzzFeed article you linked.
Show threadlj·rkJul 27, 2023
@docpop Can we do something like "this iris does not exist" and do mass sign-ups with fake data to take all their "money"?
Show threadMark Ingalls Jul 29, 2023
@docpop Sounds like a techbro MLM
Show threadStrypeyAug 1, 2023

@docpop
> I guess they went with an orb because a pyramid was too on the nose

Orb isn't?

https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Palantir.jpg

Sam AltCoin, the founder of WorldMan, White Wizard, and master of Isengard.

Show threadI am Jack's Lost 404Aug 2, 2023

@docpop

Lol... a pyramid with an eye tends to evoke certain... emotions...

At least you can't poke your eye out with an orb... nevermind any deferred harm that will come from these...

Show threadawwaiid (Brock Wilcox)Aug 4, 2023
@docpop so like a pyramid with an eyeball. Sounds familiar
Show threadJesseJul 27, 2023
@docpop That last sentence is his entire MO.
Show threadEVHasteJul 27, 2023
@docpop I will take down or cover any of these I encounter.
Show threadNate GaylinnJul 27, 2023
@docpop The more I learn about Sam Altman, the more I wish I hadn't.
Show threadDźwiedziuJul 27, 2023

@docpop
If you invent the sickness and the cure, then it's just double dipping ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also the post-colonial insensivity is just a cherry on a shitcake.

> “A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”

<blade grinding noises>

Show threadAndrew FeeneyJul 27, 2023
@docpop Not all the seeing stones are accounted for!
Show threadZalasur 🐸🇺🇦Jul 28, 2023
@docpop When that joke about the "Torment Nexus" gets a little bit too close to reality...
Show threadmav Jul 28, 2023

@docpop
@float13

Ah those wacky billionaires and their societally destructive hijinks

Show threadRobCorneliusJul 28, 2023

@docpop

He is working on the basis of a very sound business idea i.e. There is one born every minute

Show threadJeroen-bart EngelenJul 28, 2023
@docpop These "orbs" also appear in Europe. I wonder how GDPR-compliant this is. Can they delete the hash they created based on the iris of a European user if that user withdraws their consent to have them store their personally identifiable information?
Show threadJeroen-bart EngelenJul 29, 2023
@docpop Well, what do you know...
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/07/28/worldcoin-being-probed-by-french-privacy-regulator-for-questionable-practises/
Show threadGinny Bee (she/her)Jul 30, 2023

@docpop this is a really interesting topic, thanks for sharing the incoming worldcoin onslaught in SF! I will warn my friends+family.

On the topic of blockchain in general, have you read _The Ministry of the Future,_ by Kim Stanley Robinson? There's a chapter that essentially proposes something really similar to this exact idea, and I found it inspiring.

Show threadsomeguyjgJul 27, 2023
@docpop you're doing vital work. Don't let these goons get away with this bs
Show threadDock BunsonJul 27, 2023
@docpop It's like no one has ever read a sci-fi book. 😬
Show threadRon DeSantis's BDEJul 27, 2023
@SrRochardBunson @docpop
Peter Thiel literally named a company "Palantir" unironically.
Show threadDock BunsonJul 27, 2023
@DoesntExist @docpop Too bad the technofascists are taking what was supposed to be warnings and using it as a roadmap.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/worldcoin-orb-ai-2341500
Nefarious Data Collection Masking as Public Art? An A.I. Company Has Placed Mirrored Spheres Around the World in a Massive Eye-Scanning Project | Artnet News

A.I. company Worldcoin has rolled out 1,500 Orbs to more than 35 cities in a bid to create digital identities for the world's citizens.

Artnet News
Show threadRon DeSantis's BDEJul 27, 2023

@SrRochardBunson @docpop
Sauron sees himself as a job-creating industrialist.

I'm not joking.

Show threadLuna LacteaJul 27, 2023
@SrRochardBunson @docpop @DoesntExist I can't wait for Roko's Basilisk & the Torment Nexus!! I'm so excited!
Show threadeons Luna (Eonity)Jul 28, 2023
@SrRochardBunson @docpop @DoesntExist I wonder if it would be legal to just take these spheres and smash them to smithereens.
Show threadteledyn 𓂀Jul 28, 2023

@eonity

Surely there are midnight graffiti artists nearby with a few spare squirts of paint?

@SrRochardBunson @docpop @DoesntExist

Show threadOzzelot Jul 27, 2023
@SrRochardBunson @docpop At long last, the Torment Nexus!
Show threadBarbarossaJul 28, 2023

@SrRochardBunson @docpop it's like in Zombie movies when you start to wonder if no one of the protagonists has ever seen a zombie movie.

Seems we humans are really not able to do the conceptual transfer

Show threadLuis VillaJul 27, 2023
@docpop hero.
Show threadPJ "Vote Green" CoffeyJul 27, 2023

@docpop

Thankyou for performing this vital pushback against these technocratic ghouls and grifters, these peddlers of false and fool's hope.

Show threadTom WalkerJul 27, 2023
@docpop Sticking them right over the QR codes is a great idea
Show threadFuzzyspoonJul 27, 2023
@RadicalGraffiti
Show threadLocal Dad, Ben HamillJul 27, 2023
LB: The final image is missing alt text. It's a second sticker placed over a QR code. It says, "It's appalling that investors are wasting tens of millions in a new crypto scheme in the name of helping the world's poor. If they were really interested in helping low-income communities, they should give away their money instead of investing in yet another form of surveillance." and attributes that quote to The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.
Show threadsoanesJul 27, 2023
@docpop @RadicalGraffiti fyi
Show threadDamon C. JonesJul 27, 2023
@docpop boosting! Fuck Open AI. Fuck crypto.
Show threadMoved to @[email protected]Jul 27, 2023
@docpop well, that's certainly not the most dystopian thing I've ever seen /s
Worldcoin Whitepaper

Worldcoin Whitepaper
Show threadBeatsmithJul 27, 2023
@docpop Remember Pogs?
Show threadPseudo NymJul 27, 2023

@docpop

Attn: @web3isgreat

One more to keep an eye on

Show threadOzzelot Jul 27, 2023
@docpop I would also print "To wizards: don't ponder this one."
Show threadDoctor M. PopularJul 27, 2023
@ozzelot oh, I'm tempted to draw that or something. Thanks for the suggestion.
Show threadOzzelot Jul 27, 2023
@docpop I'm a simple guy: I see orb, I ponder
Show threadEveryday FreethoughtJul 28, 2023

@ozzelot @docpop

"This is not an orb of honor."

Show thread🥥 Tucker Carlson's Nuts 🥥Jul 27, 2023
@docpop
🥥 For televised stories about #dystopia, there's #BlackMirror.
For real life, there's #SamAltman and #Worldcoin. 🥥
Show threadGayPunkRock 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Jul 27, 2023
@docpop jesus christ
Show threadBeeksJul 27, 2023
@docpop I now understand why all depictions of dystopian futures are covered in graffiti. It's self defense.
Show threadUserd503Jul 27, 2023
@docpop yeah, those adds are next level deperate.
Show threadThe TurtleJul 27, 2023
@docpop i wish hydrofluoric acid was more portable, we could solve this right now.
Show threadaethervisionJul 27, 2023
@docpop I’m waiting for someone to launch Ponzi Coin and get to the truth of it.
Show thread Necrodoge Jul 27, 2023
@docpop yoo get their ass
Show threadMichael BrownJul 27, 2023
@docpop I would love seeing people do this for every sort of crypto advertisement