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Sam also ran a crypto scam called WorldCoin. Their secret sauce was tricking poor people in Africa.

by brap 1y ago

moralestapia 1y ago
>ran Nope [1]. 1: https://world.org/ https://world.org/
Gothmog69 1y ago
How did they trick them by giving them free money?
- s_ting765 1y ago
  Free crypto. There's a difference.
- HenryBemis 1y ago
  They are paying 'one worldcoin' (I've read sold about $50) to places that give zero value to their privacy (too difficult to care for privacy when starving to death and the monthly salary is $10). They are targeting poor countries (South America, Africa). Once they have collected 'enough' faces to use on their AI, they could possibly pull the plug or keep it as a social experiment. I was thinking, there is no way Russia or China will allow them to operate in their countries, and (combined) they got 1.5bn people. I can also see them trying that to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other autocratic ..stan places, where the local dictator would only allow this if they got to use the data for their own nefarious purposes.
  - tim333 1y ago
    I signed up in London. It's coming to the US shortly. You give up very little privacy - you don't even have to give your name. Most people calling it a scam don't know much about it.
    - GolfPopper 1y ago
      You just give up a little freedom for a little security?
      - tim333 1y ago
        I'm not aware of giving up any freedom. Or getting security. I got about $300 in cash equivalent in their cryptocoins and a tech toy - it's basically a combo app and crypto wallet.
- bigyabai 1y ago
  TINSTAAFL
- FeepingCreature 1y ago
  They don't know how but they know it has to be a scam because it's crypto. That's all the thought that's gone into it.
  - latexr 1y ago
    It’s not a scam because it’s a cryptocurrency, it’s a scam because it works like one. This has been covered at length by multiple investigative journalists. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-crypto-eyeball-scanning-orb-problems https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-... https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoin-cryptocurrency-biometrics-web3/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...
echelon 1y ago
Growing up in a strong Southern Christian / Baptist / Pentecostal household [1], WorldCoin feels like the most "Mark of the Beast" plot I've ever seen. 1990's televangelists like John Hagee and Pat Robertson would be screaming to high heaven about Sam Altman being the antichrist if they were still around. Transacting with your eyeball? Directly out of the Book of Revelations! [1] I took a strong interest in biochemistry in college and I'm no longer religious.
- AStonesThrow 1y ago
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  - travem 1y ago
    > It's also a hoot to just see LDS missionaries waiving their iPhones around with the Genesis Apple clearly visible. To be fair, the LDS doctrine around the fruit from the Garden of Eden and the fall is quite different from the Catholic understanding, it’s seen as a necessary, even a good thing, in the overall plan.
    - AStonesThrow 1y ago
      > quite different from the Catholic understanding Oh? And what do you believe is the Catholic understanding? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_culpa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_culpa https://www.usccb.org/prayer-worship/liturgical-year/easter/easter-proclamation-exsultet https://www.usccb.org/prayer-worship/liturgical-year/easter/... O truly necessary sin of Adam, destroyed completely by the Death of Christ! O happy fault that earned so great, so glorious a Redeemer! To be honest, I would say that these signs placed by Apple Computer were done not out of malice, but by way of warning. To say, "Here Be Dragons!" To counsel those who may be ignorant, there are pitfalls ahead, and be careful, because you could lose your soul to these things, even though they are designed as morally neutral. Computers are a tool, after all. The fruit depicted could just as easily be from the Tree of Life. It's all about how we use those tools.
      - 1y ago
GolfPopper 1y ago
Runs, I think. WorldCoin is still around, just re-branded as 'World Network'. I didn't spot the usual leadership bios on a quick search.

Sam also ran a crypto scam called WorldCoin. Their secret sauce was tricking poor people in Africa.

by brap 1y ago

Sam also ran a crypto scam called WorldCoin. Their secret sauce was tricking poor people in Africa.

moralestapia 1y ago

>ran Nope [1]. 1: https://world.org/ https://world.org/

Gothmog69 1y ago

How did they trick them by giving them free money?

s_ting765 1y ago
Free crypto. There's a difference.
HenryBemis 1y ago
They are paying 'one worldcoin' (I've read sold about $50) to places that give zero value to their privacy (too difficult to care for privacy when starving to death and the monthly salary is $10). They are targeting poor countries (South America, Africa). Once they have collected 'enough' faces to use on their AI, they could possibly pull the plug or keep it as a social experiment. I was thinking, there is no way Russia or China will allow them to operate in their countries, and (combined) they got 1.5bn people. I can also see them trying that to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other autocratic ..stan places, where the local dictator would only allow this if they got to use the data for their own nefarious purposes.
- tim333 1y ago
  I signed up in London. It's coming to the US shortly. You give up very little privacy - you don't even have to give your name. Most people calling it a scam don't know much about it.
  - GolfPopper 1y ago
    You just give up a little freedom for a little security?
    - tim333 1y ago
      I'm not aware of giving up any freedom. Or getting security. I got about $300 in cash equivalent in their cryptocoins and a tech toy - it's basically a combo app and crypto wallet.
bigyabai 1y ago
TINSTAAFL
FeepingCreature 1y ago
They don't know how but they know it has to be a scam because it's crypto. That's all the thought that's gone into it.
- latexr 1y ago
  It’s not a scam because it’s a cryptocurrency, it’s a scam because it works like one. This has been covered at length by multiple investigative journalists. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-crypto-eyeball-scanning-orb-problems https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-... https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoin-cryptocurrency-biometrics-web3/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...

echelon 1y ago

Growing up in a strong Southern Christian / Baptist / Pentecostal household [1], WorldCoin feels like the most "Mark of the Beast" plot I've ever seen. 1990's televangelists like John Hagee and Pat Robertson would be screaming to high heaven about Sam Altman being the antichrist if they were still around. Transacting with your eyeball? Directly out of the Book of Revelations! [1] I took a strong interest in biochemistry in college and I'm no longer religious.

AStonesThrow 1y ago
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- travem 1y ago
  > It's also a hoot to just see LDS missionaries waiving their iPhones around with the Genesis Apple clearly visible. To be fair, the LDS doctrine around the fruit from the Garden of Eden and the fall is quite different from the Catholic understanding, it’s seen as a necessary, even a good thing, in the overall plan.
  - AStonesThrow 1y ago
    > quite different from the Catholic understanding Oh? And what do you believe is the Catholic understanding? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_culpa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_culpa https://www.usccb.org/prayer-worship/liturgical-year/easter/easter-proclamation-exsultet https://www.usccb.org/prayer-worship/liturgical-year/easter/... O truly necessary sin of Adam, destroyed completely by the Death of Christ! O happy fault that earned so great, so glorious a Redeemer! To be honest, I would say that these signs placed by Apple Computer were done not out of malice, but by way of warning. To say, "Here Be Dragons!" To counsel those who may be ignorant, there are pitfalls ahead, and be careful, because you could lose your soul to these things, even though they are designed as morally neutral. Computers are a tool, after all. The fruit depicted could just as easily be from the Tree of Life. It's all about how we use those tools.
    - 1y ago

GolfPopper 1y ago

Runs, I think. WorldCoin is still around, just re-branded as 'World Network'. I didn't spot the usual leadership bios on a quick search.