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This WorldCoin image will forever live rent free in my head: https://www.crikey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/08/New-Project67.jpg https://www.crikey.
by qingcharles 1y ago
This WorldCoin image will forever live rent free in my head:
https://www.crikey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/08/New-Project67.jpg https://www.crikey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/08...
- bigyabai 1y ago"How does it work?" "It's magic. All technology is."
- joomla199 1y agoGiven that we don’t know why electromagnetism exists, this is basically true for many technologies.
- hoppp 1y agoWe don't know why the world itself exists so everything is magic
- KumaBear 1y agoThere doesn’t need to be a why the world exists. It does that’s all there is to know. There doesn’t have to be purpose just an explanation of how not why
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- hnbad 1y agoGP probably meant "how" as in "By what mechanisms" not "why" as in "For what purposes". So "why" as in "what makes it do what it does".
- Joker_vD 1y agoWell, it does what it does because it's shaped like itself.
- hnbad 1y agoSure but that's somewhat tautological and not very helpful if you seek an empirical or predictive understanding of it. The question really is what complexity of the system (meaning: all of it) is irreducible and what can at least be approximated with simplified models. You may balk at this as being ultimately futile but our entire existence is built on trying to break apart and simplify the world we exist in, starting with the first cut between self/inside and other/outside (i.e. "this is me" vs "this is where I am" - a distinction that becomes immensely relevant after the moment of birth). Language itself only functions because we can create categories it can operate on - regardless of whether those categories consistenly map to reality itself.
- lurk2 1y agoThis but unironically.
- wartywhoa23 1y agoThis is true, and the fact that humans mostly become blind to this magic past the age of 5 is one of the reasons we live in such a dismal world.
- lo_zamoyski 1y agoSpeak for yourself. That "we" is presumptuous. The cause of the universe must itself be uncaused, or else it is only an intermediate cause that must itself refer ultimately to an uncaused cause. An infinite regress is impossible with respect to existence. Unlike causes per accidens which can in principle be infinite in length, a cause `per se` cannot; without a terminus, there would be nowhere from which the latter causes would derive their force, so to speak, like an arm pushing a stick that is pushing a rock that is pushing a leaf. Meaning, the cause is not some distant one in time, but one always acting; otherwise, everything would vanish. The only cause that could have this property is self-subsisting being. From there, you can know quite a bit about what else must be true of self-subsisting being.
- adastra22 1y agoWhat do you mean? We know quite well how electromagnetism arises from U(1) symmetry in gauge theory. What else is there to know?
- gizajob 1y agoWhat does U(1) symmetry in gauge theory arise from?
- vmilner 1y agoIt's turtles all the way down.
- mzajc 1y agoNot from bribes and/or moving faster than the regulators. Altman's projects, on the other hand...
- adastra22 1y agoAt some point the answer is “because that’s what reality is.”
- lo_zamoyski 1y agoIf by "reality" you mean "the universe", then the way the universe is depends on a cause, as the existence of the universe is not explained by the universe itself (even an "eternal" universe). Its existence is contingent on some other cause that ultimately cannot be contingent and thus does not require explanation. So the cause or dare I say reason for the universe being the way it is will depend on its cause.
- adastra22 1y agoThe universe just is that way because it is. THAT is the root cause.
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- arlcode 1y agoWhat exactly am I looking at?
- Nursie 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain) A Sam Altman project which seemingly popped up out of nowhere, and offered people free money in exchange for biometric registration on the network, in a lot of countries all over the world. It seemed to be an attempt to set up some sort of global electronic ID system and currency all in one. That silver sphere is an iris scanner, IIRC. Got shut down pretty hard in a bunch of places as a potentially illegal invasion of privacy.
- CaptainZapp 1y ago>A Sam Altman project which seemingly popped up out of nowhere, and offered people free money Was it free money? I recall that it was some shitcoin token paid out, which may or may not be worth something. I could be wrong, of course.
- Nursie 1y agoIt was 'worldcoin'. And yes I used the term 'money' very loosely there. Apparently the token was only offered in some countries, and in some places where it was offered, that was considered enough of a bribe to render void the informed consent to collect and process private data.
- ben_w 1y agoDepending on degree of cynicism*, both takes are compatible with what was observable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain) * For what it's worth, my cynicism for Worldcoin and that eye scanner thing is currently about 7/10: moderately high but could be much worse. By comparison, I'm 9/10 in cynicism for Facebook and 10/10 in cynicism for everything Musk does except SpaceX, my SpaceX cynicism is only 5/10.
- tim333 1y ago
- tjpnz 1y agoLooks suspiciously like the robot that pumped Princess Leia full of drugs.