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So I somehow completely missed that this was ever a thing.

But let me get this straight. Sam is the CEO of OpenAI. Basically the company that is making it harder and harder to know what was made by a human or a machine.

Out of concern over that, makes Worldcoin as some authentication method? So the problem he helped Shepard in, he has another company that he could make money on to fix said problem?

Am I missing something here or is this... super shady sounding?

That's before getting into the whole scanning our eyes for a few bucks thing.

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> is this... super shady sounding?

A lot of people have been trying to point that out for ages, without any real traction.

It's also completely silly: it's marketing for me. OFC OpenAI will not reach AGI, and ChatGPT doesnt ressemble humans as soon as in interactive mode: there is little danger beyond freeing poor copy writers from their miserable torpeur.

But make another company defending against an insane danger from the first and people start dreaming.

It gets worse... https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-orb-worldcoin-tools-f...

It’s literally a plot point of countless dystopian books and movies.

Either of OpenAI or WorldCoin would be a terrifying nightmare even without Altman and OpenPhilanthropy and the SEC investigation and what-the-hell-ever scared Ilya so bad he 180’d from a single phone call and Yud whipping the public and Congress into a frenzy talking about Terminator in two years.

I don’t care how badly someone wants to be accepted into YC or whatever: this is the wrong side of history.

“We are below them, we are above them, we are around them, we run through everything they do.” - Satya Nadella, Eyes Wide Shut

Where can I read more about this phonecall Ilya had?

> So the problem he helped Shepard in, he has another company that he could make money on to fix said problem?

> Am I missing something here or is this... super shady sounding?

It sounds like inventing the ship and also tools to avoid shipwrecks. I don't think there's inherently anything shady about the pattern.

Not clear if it's intentional or result of incompetence but this is a pattern with so-called "tech" companies: create a problem and then propose commercialised "solutions". Of course the most logical, economical solution is for the so-called "tech" company to stop doing what they doing that creates the problem.

I don't think it's shady given we have competition.

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