Lots of skepticism, but now that this has launched — it'll be interesting to see if normies will embrace it and allow their retinas to be scanned into the blockchain for about $60... With generative AI, we're definitely going to need ways to distinguish between human and machine actors — but is this the right vehicle to achieve that outcome? It certainly isn't a flawless plan...!
I listened to half of the Bankless interview with @sama and @alexblania yesterday. It's a good conversation and provides a lot more insight into their goals and implementation decisions. Regardless of some peoples' skepticism, it's a bold idea that could become a foundational layer to many use cases, well beyond UBI.
This is definitely worth watching (sorry... couldn't resist the pun). :)
@sama@alexblania@rrhoover it's a ONE WAY street. You can NEVER change your eyeballs. Biometrics should never be given away to a 3rd party. Sure, use biometrics *locally* on your own device, but never give it away as it can't be undone, and the 3rd party can NEVER prove with certainty that they deleted the data as they claim.
Not to mention this creates an economic incentive for criminals to organ harvest eyeballs. Terrible incentives.
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The first time I needed a downvote button on PH. It's naive to think that AI will not be able to generate fake biometric data to fool systems like this. We need a decentralized reputation graph of public keys, and all content simply must be signed or assumed fake.
As a technology anthropologist who's helped many companies bring software/hardware products to market, this is unlikely to succeed for several reasons. Growing mistrust of biometrics as a whole, the general market has zero trust for crypto right now, neither this hardware nor blockchain can scale at what would be needed at a societal level. I could go on.
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blockchain developers should understand "how finance works" first, you can't bootstrap a new economy from scratch.
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why does this have a privacy tag ?
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I don't like it one bit. It reeks to the high heavens of data farming, biometrics farming etc. and if anyone capitulates for 60 bucks they would want to have themselves checked out.
I hear you..but google and everyone else takes your data/biometrics etc.. a terrible argument, they're also crooks.
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Very excited about this project. In a future world, I hope this project will bring humans together. On the other hand, I hope it remains totally independent and managed by its users, otherwise it'll be hello George Orwell
Super exciting and has the potential to change everything! 🚀🚀🚀
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I'd like to understand the concept of a jobless society, but so far I've been unable to do so. The reason for my lack of understanding is simple - the modern world has been ruled by marketing for 100+ years and I find no reason why the economy of the future would need billions of unemployed people. It would be good to solve this problem from the other end and instead of thinking about basic income, think of how humanity will benefit the world of the future and get a commensurate reward for it.
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