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by colesantiago 1116 days ago
Sam’s strategy here is to create the sickness (ai) and sell the cure (worldcoin).

This is a complete grifting double hedging scam.

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I can imagine this being true, but I think supervillain schemes like this don't actually work in real life. Both will just up becoming irrelevant, and the public internet will get a little shittier
Remember when these guys were the young upstarts, disrupting big business and scoring points for the little guy?

How bravely they have transitioned into collecting our eyeball scans and courageously hoarding billions of dollars while the planet withers away. Technology has changed the world.