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		dataflow on Nov 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman I'd never heard of that, but that definitely sounds shady. Thanks for mentioning it. To save people a search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldcoin

bredren on Nov 17, 2023 [–]

Why would someone running OpenAI possibly be involved in something so unnecessarily speculative and unrelated?

I ask that question leaving out any of the socio-economic and privacy concerns around that project.

JohnFen on Nov 17, 2023 | [–]

He started WorldCoin before OpenAI came around.

jacobn on Nov 18, 2023 | | [–]

The Wikipedia page says world coin was founded in 2019?

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