The problem with illegibility is that it hides triggers at the cost of letting people project their worst fears onto you.
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That is, it's only really valuable if it eliminates you from consideration as a threat hypothesis in the first place. If you're illegible and getting attention, it's likely actively working against you.
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If you're high level enough though this can be used deliberately to mess with your enemies. I think this is a lot of what Trump was doing with his PR, he'd figure out scissor statement kinda stuff that would antagonize his enemies while endearing him to his allies.
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It's very much the hacker method of war: Find a map-territory mismatch in your opponents strategy where they think a losing metric tracks victory, then give them the opportunity to maximize their own loss for you.
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In ten years nobody will even know what the controversial authors of history said; there will be a thousand AI generated fakes for every one authentic work.
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This is what public key crypto and message signing are for.
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I know. But I am worried about the infinitesimal likelihood the future has the ability to manipulate the past that is proportional to the soundness of its model of the past, so I am happier to let them hang themselves with their own rope.
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I also don't want to be simulated accurately by my enemies, so letting them create absurd caricatures of me seems like a good way of avoiding various possibilities of evil.
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