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by lowkey_ 223 days ago
A lot of folks give it flak for being incredibly dystopian, but this: https://world.org/orb

I first thought this was just a crypto play with 1 wallet per real person (wasn't a huge fan), but with the proliferation of AI, it makes sense we'll eventually need safeguards to ensure a user's humanity, ideally without any other identifiers needed.

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> A lot of folks give it flak for being incredibly dystopian, but this: https://world.org/orb

The flak should be because it's from Sam Altman. A billionaire tech bro giving us both the disease and the cure, and profiting massively along the way, is what's truly dystopian.