Altman suddenly had the funds to reboot his stalled Worldcoin Orb scheme, and yet, he supposedly doesn’t have any equity in OpenAI. 
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What is Orb for Worldcoin?
Blania’s company makes a futuristic looking eyeball scanner that it calls “the Orb.” It scans your retina and spits out a unique identifier, basically a string of characters called a World ID.
the f…(this is getting disturbingly weird fast!)
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If we’re talking about technology-born dystopian scenarios, that Torment Nexus hell child of Minority Report and Black Mirror is a lot more deserving of concern than a theoretical breakthrough in AGI.
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… looks like “Q splat” to me
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thank you, @RickMycroft.
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Surely a coincidence!
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Well, at least it’s a cult that pays its worker bee level acolytes. Nice touch, if a bit unusual.
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well, when you don’t have to pay any of the artists, authors, musicians, and voice actors who are actually creating your content - there’s apparently a lot of money left over to spread around amongst your friends
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That’s just the sweetener. What do their employee stock options look like?
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Correct. And given how pension funds etc. work there is a good chance that a tiny bit of my money, and by extension me, is complicit in paying for this madness whether I want it or not.
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In the olden days they would have looked sort of like a long counterfoil, but I understand these days they are more NFT-ish.
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A little old lady once told me that there is no such thing. And then knocked me out with her handbag.
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Same old same old.
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TESCREAL; thanks for that word. It will do well for naming a Necron Overlord.
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