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> I'm not seeing any obvious advantage that World Id will have over these existing systems. I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but you don't see
by serial_dev 3y ago
> I'm not seeing any obvious advantage that World Id will have over these existing systems.
I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but you don't see the obvious advantage because you are looking for the obvious benefit from the perspective of a user.
Having a database of international retina information (which is practically an immutable property), spending history, and connections graph, is probably invaluable to intelligence agencies, oppressive regimes (or, you know, just simply "regimes" as they are all oppressive to some degree when the opportunity comes, as the covid years taught us), big tech/pharma, military industrial complex, news organizations and other arms of the ruling class.
- happytiger 3y agoPermanently accurate maps are always of interest no matter what the scale. Retina databases are also the identity framework of choice for global identity and payments. There is no more valuable graph database than one secured by unchangeable and immutable PII. I see it that way. Not a great look for the guy, but I think smart people often launch their experiments under the cover of stupid pretenses so they only have to lean into what gains traction. Why commit to experiments -- just test it and see if it works. If it fails, cool idea and tried it. If it succeeds, one of the most valuable data platforms for AI… you said it and you’re spot on imo.