Doctor M. PopularJul 27, 2023
POV: When Worldcoin starts advertising their dystopian bullshit in your neighborhood.
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 threadGinny Bee (she/her)

@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.

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