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by kstrauser
1056 days ago
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They're talking about using it for things like government benefits. The moment they opened that can of worms, they're on the hook for making it serve, at the minimum, everyone that the current government mechanisms serve. I'm using eyeless people as an example here, because it's the obvious case of people who can't possibly use Worldcoin even if they wanted to. The direct implication today is that blind people would lose their benefits under Worldcoin. If that's not true, then either. 1. Government doesn't actually need Worldcoin's ideas as much as Worldcoin hopes they do. 2. There are workarounds that don't require Worldcoin, in which case let's just use those in the first place. |
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'Blind' is a much larger category than 'eyeless', and I think you're making the implicit assumption that the government's current identity verification methods work much better than they really do. Just look at the HN post yesterday about the woman whose identity was stolen and used to import 'counterfeit' goods. Worldcoin's system may not be perfect, but having it as an option might have helped in a case like that.