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Comment by gkoberger | Hacker News Reader

I've been to the OpenAI office once, and saw Sam sitting on a couch working. This is obviously just a single data point, so who knows.

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Could have been on a WorldCoin zoom though

If you were the CEO of OpenAI, and you knew someday there would be a need to verify if someone is human, what would your plan be?

Not start a scammy crypto coin, that’s for sure. Stronger push of societal acceptance of public key cryptography everywhere would be a first good step.

I'm no crypto fan, but how is it scammy?

Non-humans could potentially have a public key; I'm a fan of switching to public keys in general but it doesn't solve the problem of assuring "unique humanness".

Governments do a pretty good job of verifying "unique humanness", but I suppose crypto innovation, fancy iris-scanners and a sprinkling of free-market fairy dust is what we really need in this space.

Web of trust could work fine here.

Have I met them? Check. Has someone I know and trust met them? Check. Has the government met them? Half check. Has the google met them? Quarter check.

I think the point GP is trying to make is: just because he was working out of an OpenAI office doesn’t mean he was necessarily working on OpenAI business; he could have been remotely working on some of his other ventures.

No, you're moving the goalposts here. First, it was "he doesn't go into the office", and now it's "even if he does, maybe he's not doing what he should be."

> "even if he does, maybe it's the wrong office."

It is sort of a nicer definition, though. The coffee shop is a workplace for the baristas, so maybe we can return to the workplace by going there instead.

I think when people say “go into the office,” they mean the office of the company they are working for.

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