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Worldcoin, Sam Altman's crypto coin-backed eyeball-scanning ID, has just launched in Britain - a country historically averse to national ID systems. Will anyone there use it? (futurology.today)

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People in Britain have historically been quite averse to ID systems; the country is one of the few in Europe without national ID cards. Something that is standard in many other European countries.

Will they take to Worldcoin? It seems to combine everything that is rapidly going out of fashion. It's touting itself as a solution to AI slop, the same problem its founder is creating. It's crypto-backed, words that mean 'red flag' and 'scam artist' to many people. Finally, it's all about putting all your trust in American Big Tech. An idea in steep decline globally, and at home in America.

Still, the investor billions are still flowing. Palantir, with similar ambitions, is now valued at $328 billion, 220 times more than its earnings.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

They are destroying the web, and want to sell a privacy-invasive shitcoin as the solution to the problems they created. My solution is less expensive: shutdown everything, make a new web that can't be monetized. My life won't be worse by their absence.