• oni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Really? Are people out there that thinks that death is a design flaw? I know it’s shitpost, but it’s based on something after all

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      Yes, there are people who believe we will find a way to transcend death via technology. I personally think a world ruled by immortal omniwealthy methusalas that will never let even death release their boot from the necks of the common man is a bad thing, but…

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        Once I read a creepypasta where the wealthy spent a lot of money paying research and development of immortality, only achieving a worse version of cancer. The wealthy obviously went dead.

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          That’s the good ending. Bad ending is it works and the dictators of the world crush everyone else, tantalizing just enough people with the immortality carrot to make the system eternal.

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      I’m also hung up on “Crypto is UBI”. Surely this is a one off crackpot quote and not a thing, right?

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        This one is empirically falsified. I never heard it before, and even though I can believe somebody is saying it somewhere, it’s an incredibly stupid thing to say.

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          Oh almost forgot

          More than three years ago we founded Worldcoin with the ambition of creating a new identity and financial network owned by everyone; the rollout begins today. If successful, we believe Worldcoin could drastically increase economic opportunity, scale a reliable solution for distinguishing humans from AI online while preserving privacy, enable global democratic processes, and eventually show a potential path to AI-funded UBI.

          https://world.org/cofounder-letter

          It’s the iris scan one

          Worldcoin orbs