Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse

Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse by meowface on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:07AM (#36907886)

I think it's a kind of uncharitable article (surely Sam and the rest of the people involved have spent a ton of time thinking about the problem and the existence of black markets and possibilities for abuse), but

>I don’t know if it’s the best attempt but I understand what it is and what the goals are.

a bad solution can potentially be worse than no solution in this case. A false belief in identity guarantees can facilitate fraud and other manipulation, while "you should never trust anyone or anything, including that there's a 1:1 relationship between public keys and individual humans" at least advises everyone of the risk.

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Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse by fossuser on Friday July 28, 2023 @01:15PM (#36910079)

Agreed, I just have a hard time with articles I know to be uncharitable or written with an obvious bent against the subject.

Maybe world coin has thought of these problems? Maybe not, but I wouldn’t trust the author to have done any due diligence.

There’s an interesting article to be written here, but this isn’t it imo.

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Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse by fossuser on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:47PM (#36911397)

Also seems unfair that my root level comment was flagged, dang?

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