Sam Altman is one line of cocaine away from being Elon Musk. The most sci-fi thing he’s ever done is try to get people in third world nations to let a giant orb scan their retinas in exchange for a couple dollars.
I only heard about Worldcoin from some guy chatting to me about it in the pub. I thought it was just some Ponzi scheme coined up by a random grifting crypto-bro, not the CEO of OpenAI…
Did you know the guy, or was the premise so outlandish that you figured it was more likely to be real than just a conspiracy theory? If I didn’t already know about the Orb, I would have said it was made up
IIRC it’s the counterpart to OpenAI, Altman’s other project.
To paraphrase how he’d probably describe it: AI (his AI) will be able to realistically create deepfakes of you, so proving your actual identity will be important. So you scan your retina into this and your identity gets onto the Blockchain. Which will be stored safely on the Orb.
Sam Altman is one line of cocaine away from being Elon Musk. The most sci-fi thing he’s ever done is try to get people in third world nations to let a giant orb scan their retinas in exchange for a couple dollars.
All Effective Altruists are con men at best.
I only heard about Worldcoin from some guy chatting to me about it in the pub. I thought it was just some Ponzi scheme coined up by a random grifting crypto-bro, not the CEO of OpenAI…
Did you know the guy, or was the premise so outlandish that you figured it was more likely to be real than just a conspiracy theory? If I didn’t already know about the Orb, I would have said it was made up
What was the orb thing supposed to do?
IIRC it’s the counterpart to OpenAI, Altman’s other project.
To paraphrase how he’d probably describe it: AI (his AI) will be able to realistically create deepfakes of you, so proving your actual identity will be important. So you scan your retina into this and your identity gets onto the Blockchain. Which will be stored safely on the Orb.
Just by reading that I csn see that it was just a grift
If someone grabs me off the street and tells me hey look directly into this orb and I’ll give you some crypto, I will gouge my eyes on the spot
Ever seen Phantasm? Different orb, similar idea
I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a plot summary start like this
I mean… They’re not lying.
The difference is that Elon would have said “And we can do this today!” back in 2017.