what do i think of worldID?

cool tech but why would i trust a white guy from america if i am in china or literally anywhere outside north america? 

their gtm is hubris 

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/06/1034631928/the-cias-hunt-for-bin-laden-has-had-lasting-repercussions-for-ngos-in-pakistan

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i agree w u on both. 

it’s not the devs i doubt. it’s the politics and people. erich schmidt is a big DOD booster. sam altman is openAI guy. to imagine USG isn’t involved in some way… is hard for me. 

i’d prefer a worldID effort that was orchestrated by a global community.

In principle, their goal is to make a system where you don't have to trust the devs.

And I do think that they've gone further in that regard than many people give them credit for.

humans make the math and the tech that uses it and how it would be exploited would be some way we don’t account for. also, w hardware… more options surface.

Would you rather he be an orange guy from america?

Trust math not humans!

i dont 'trust' that apple isn't working w/ the usg. i just personally don't feel at risk rn if they are. 

"R was no scientist. He couldn’t drop in a line about the Riemann hypothesis as an icebreaker."

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i dont 'trust' that apple isn't working w/ the usg. i just personally don't feel at risk rn if they are. 

"R was no scientist. He couldn’t drop in a line about the Riemann hypothesis as an icebreaker." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/10/the-science-of-spying-how-the-cia-secretly-recruits-academics

That’s a crazy story. 

Apple also scans your eyeballs but people trust Apple to do it. They’ve spent years earning that trust. In addition to that they’ll have to demonstrate that they’re not building a supranational biometric surveillance layer whether by accident or design.