I would encourage people who are otherwise deeply cynical of anything crypto (I know I am, and I hate 99% of crypto projects) to not immediately discount Worldcoin and make their own judgements based on the content Worldcoin presents. Much of the hacker news discussion on this project is making claims and assumptions that are factually incorrect or at best, misleading.
Online discussion is already largely broken, and will get much more broken in the coming years without something similar to Worldcoin.