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Blania: Biometrics is the only way to prove humanity online
“Biometrics, I think, is the only way to actually solve the problem, and I would need to go much deeper into why it is, but I think it is the only way to solve the problem of human problem on the internet”
Blania: World has the world's largest crypto wallet by user count
“And so now we actually, we have the largest wallet in the world in terms of users.”
Blania: AI will soon drive 99.9% of all internet traffic
“Because I think like, 99.9% or something of all internet traffic will be AI driven.”
Blania: Combating bots is a lost cause; humans must prove humanity instead
“I think it's not about combating the bots because that will be a lost cause, but rather every human on these platforms will need some version of a proof of human and actually prove that their content is authentic.”
Blania: X will become unusable within two years without new technical solutions
“So I think my personal prediction, I might be wrong with this, but I think Platforms like X will not be usable. And like a matter of months, maximum two years if they don't come up with completely new technical solutions”
Blania: Humanity is in the last innings before superintelligence
“We are probably in the last innings before superintelligence.”
Blania: OpenAI wrote the biggest check in Merge Labs' seed round
“A large group of people, but the biggest check was OpenAI and then many of our friends, you know, some of the funds that have been involved here, many, many individuals, it's like a broad, like it's a class, like it's a large scale seed, but it is, from that p…”
Blania: BCI will reach broad consumer applications within 15 years
“Like if you now look at a 15 year time horizon, I think it's going to be a couple of years of research, then a couple of years of medical applications and like hopefully bringing benefits to a lot of people that really need such a technology and then eventuall…”
Blania: AR/VR is the next computing shift before brain-computer interfaces
“If I could do a personal guess, I think like the AR, VR step will be next, and then I think BCIs and kind of high bandwidth BCI specifically, it's gonna come after that. So I think it's gonna be, you know, current smartphone situation, then you will have AR, V…”
Blania: AI misalignment risks have trended in a much better direction
“I mean, it would be something around AI misalignment and like some, something in that direction would probably be one, but that also seems to trend in a much better direction over the last couple of years.”
Blania: Major platforms will integrate World ID in coming months
“And WorldID specifically, I think you will see integrated with many of the large platforms that you're already using today in the coming months, maybe, if we're good.”
Blania: World has 37 million users, 17 million Orb-verified
“So we're not, I think, thirty-seven million users total. Seventeen million of which are verified, so they used one of these orbs.”
Blania: A user privacy leak is the only thing that could kill World
“One of the operating principles is fail-safe privacy, because in some, like, that, that's the only way you could kill this company in, in a second. Like, if, like, one engineer is doing something stupid, and we would leak user privacy, basically in any form or…”
Blania: Merge Labs co-founded by Sam Altman, Mikhail Shapiro, and others
“So it's kind of three camps coming together. So that's kind of how it happened. It was Sam, Sandra, and me three of us are not working together since many years on Tulsa for Humanity and on other things. Then it's Mikael Shapiro who's a professor at Caltech an…”