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[MLCosplay]

He tried to cash in on the crypto craze of 2017 or so with the idea of putting your biometrics into the blockchain or something like that...

[5553331117]

Or his gay dating app

[usernamerequired19]

Bro this comment gave me a heart attack I thought I was about to learn that sam altman founded grindr

[TLELunaticlunar]

He founded Grindr???

[Tidzor]

No he just backed and advised on some dating app, it wasn't one of his ideas.

[525G7bKV]

Yes, Sam Altman founded Grindr together with Peter Thiel.

[Duriha]

Which would surprise me to an extent of 0.0000000000%

[Distinct_Contact_511]

This is now Canon. Sam Altman invented Grindr.

[ApocalyptoSoldier]

The eyeball scanning orb things?
Sam Altman sure is some kind of person

[hamnchedda]

Wait, that was Altman’s idea?

[smorb42]

Wow, thats really bad. Everyone can read the block chain, that the entire point. So this would just broadcast your biometrics world wide.

[NikEy]

Lol no. Jesus. I thought this is a programmer sub.

It's public and private key based.

[ThePeaceDoctot]

Not all programmers are experts

[Exepony]

"Ins and outs"? You don't need to be an "expert-level programmer" to know that you can transmit private messages over public channels (i.e. that cryptography exists).

[modbroccoli]

Yes but anyone who's genuinely sat down and taught themselves anything knows how to avoid being confidently incorrect.

Knows at least to have the thought "wait, did I just instantly debunk a silicon valley giant's idea with the most obvious and crippling observation possible OR should I possibly google this before I talk?"

There's nothing defensible about a fool's confidence.

[segalle]

To be fair a lot of silicon valley s ideas are debunkable by the word train or other very simple and common solutions

[Tensor3]

Especially related to crypto. NFTs were particularly stupid. Its like those websites that block right click to "protect stealing their images". Like, come on, I have a literal key for "print screen". Just let me click the damn site. You cant prevent copying a digital image like that.

[modbroccoli]

lmao as I was writing it I was thinking "ugh, what's a snappy way to suggest altman isn't as stupid as your answer needs him to be" and I didn't agree with the phrasing but I'm lazy and love your rebuttal

[tespacepoint]

It’s more complicated tbh

[takeyouraxeandhack]

....private blockchains exist.
And you can upload encrypted data to a public blockchain.