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I don't know what it means to be human-verified in any useful sense.


Maybe Internet cafes will become more of a thing again. The manager will verify you as a real human using their computers, and the Internet cafe itself gets audited.

Or imagine a Costco Metaverse Verification Center. You can play in a VR metaverse with other verified humans at other Costcos around the world. AR cameras on the headset will ensure you can see your $1.50 hotdog and soda combo so you never have to leave the metaverse. Costco would also provide you a sleep pod at cost if you want to plug back into the matrix right after waking up.


Check this out: https://worldcoin.org/world-id, another project from Sam Altman:


It means meatware was closer to the end of the process of inputting data into the system.


I think I know what "human-generated" means, but I don't know what "human-verified" means.


How would you verify that? Any digital means is out, and nothing else will be able to scale.


It seems incredibly dishonest to not understand why people want to interact with other people.


I understand the desire to restrict your consumption to human generated content. But I don't understand what is meant by "human verified".


It seems incredibly dishonest to not understand why governments want a cryptographic backdoor that only they can use.




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