I don’t like the trend towards public revelation of private communication.
I think it is increasing.
I think the abuses will become more dangerous than most yet comprehend.
And I think we need a variety of cultural and technological countermeasures towards such abuses.
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It’s everything.
It’s China’s digital yuan.
It’s Snowden’s turnkey tyranny.
It’s media corporations that profit from invading your privacy.
It’s tech companies merging with surveillance states.
It’s the rising foreign & domestic conflicts that spur the erosion of civil liberties.
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Another idea is to lean into the fact that AI content creation will soon flood the zone with fake versions of everything.
Anything that’s not digitally signed is deemed fake till proven real.
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I cannot decide whether this would be ethical or not 
I think the ends would be net-positive, but would the action erode even-more-net-positive societal norms? Thoughts, y'all? twitter.com/zooko/status/1…
I think the ends would be net-positive, but would the action erode even-more-net-positive societal norms? Thoughts, y'all? twitter.com/zooko/status/1…Show this thread
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A third idea is the pseudonymous economy.
Use zero knowledge, homomorphic encryption, secure multiparty computation, cryptocredentials, AI avatars, and the like to bring your minimum necessary self to work.
Thereby make both cancellation and discrimination impossible.
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Excellent talk by @balajis on The Pseudonymous Economy. High ratio of ideas per minute. youtu.be/urtXRg9Nl3k
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A fourth idea in combination with pseudonyms are screenshot resistant fonts.
In combination with disappearing messages and end-to-end encryption, you can make it hard to share screenshots without traceback to the screenshotter.
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A fifth idea — the obvious one — is to start consciously building high trust communities with strong social conventions in favor of privacy.
See this talk on how to robustify your social network supply chain.
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A sixth idea is *provable* end-to-end encryption.
You no longer need to take Signal or WhatsApp’s word for it. Instead, by connecting privacy to private keys, we can enable provable E2E messaging. twitter.com/farcaster_xyz/
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A seventh concept is AI-based stylometric *re*anonymization.
It runs on your phone. You hit a button a few times to rephrase your text. Preview, then send.
Coupled with AI voice & face changers, pseudonyms, screenshot resistant fonts. Makes you hard to track.
A digital ghost.
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Style transfer, but for text. Will probably soon be Google Docs plug-ins that will change your sentences into the style of Hemingway, Austen...or Satoshi. Run locally, could help defeat stylometric deanonymization. May be possible to use as a kind of ML-based linter as well. twitter.com/stanfordnlp/st
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“minimum necessary self” - captures the essence of your point. Im gonna steal this expression a lot. 🔥
is the living example of it.
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How does a pseud economy address double-agent + mole risks? Companies and nations now protect secrets with singular traceable identity enforced by law. Would a chain do similar? How would it ensure singularity without some physical identification? Or is there another way?
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sort of like the venetian masks but not solely for debauchery. you can layer your masks in the event one is ripped off.
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I love the Pseudonymous Economy idea. I'll be actively seeking opportunities to work on a piece of it.
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