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Angus Berwick

πŸ‘€ Speaker
116 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

So I think what they say is that the problem with, you know, for instance, like a passport or your kind of social security number is that that's kind of bound to the kind of confines of your nation. And I think that, you know, they want a global solution that can be recreated anywhere around the world.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

So I think what they say is that the problem with, you know, for instance, like a passport or your kind of social security number is that that's kind of bound to the kind of confines of your nation. And I think that, you know, they want a global solution that can be recreated anywhere around the world.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

So I think what they say is that the problem with, you know, for instance, like a passport or your kind of social security number is that that's kind of bound to the kind of confines of your nation. And I think that, you know, they want a global solution that can be recreated anywhere around the world.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

So you would be tagged, for instance, on Reddit or on a dating site or on a shopping site or a social media site, and you would then be tagged as a verified... Verified human. A verified human, exactly. And if I'm speaking with you and your world ID, I can be confident that you're not a bot who is out to trick me.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

So you would be tagged, for instance, on Reddit or on a dating site or on a shopping site or a social media site, and you would then be tagged as a verified... Verified human. A verified human, exactly. And if I'm speaking with you and your world ID, I can be confident that you're not a bot who is out to trick me.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

So you would be tagged, for instance, on Reddit or on a dating site or on a shopping site or a social media site, and you would then be tagged as a verified... Verified human. A verified human, exactly. And if I'm speaking with you and your world ID, I can be confident that you're not a bot who is out to trick me.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

For a lot of people, staring into this orb and allowing it to scan my eye isn't the most enticing prospect.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

For a lot of people, staring into this orb and allowing it to scan my eye isn't the most enticing prospect.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

For a lot of people, staring into this orb and allowing it to scan my eye isn't the most enticing prospect.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

They have their own token called WLD.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

They have their own token called WLD.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

They have their own token called WLD.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

When the project was launching, one WLD token was worth around $10. And I think so that people were receiving potentially up to about $100 just to participate in this.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

When the project was launching, one WLD token was worth around $10. And I think so that people were receiving potentially up to about $100 just to participate in this.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

When the project was launching, one WLD token was worth around $10. And I think so that people were receiving potentially up to about $100 just to participate in this.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

I think there was an infamous case in which thousands of people swarmed this WorldCoin site at this convention center in Nairobi. These huge queues of people spilling out onto the roads. And I think there was a huge degree of intrigue.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

I think there was an infamous case in which thousands of people swarmed this WorldCoin site at this convention center in Nairobi. These huge queues of people spilling out onto the roads. And I think there was a huge degree of intrigue.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

I think there was an infamous case in which thousands of people swarmed this WorldCoin site at this convention center in Nairobi. These huge queues of people spilling out onto the roads. And I think there was a huge degree of intrigue.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

There was also quite a lot of excitement about it, in part because people were able to receive these payouts of the cryptocurrency, which they could then swap for actual cash.

The Journal.
Why Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball

There was also quite a lot of excitement about it, in part because people were able to receive these payouts of the cryptocurrency, which they could then swap for actual cash.