and I come back expecting to find all my old DMs but instead they are all deleted.
That is why I said “and attach an export”.*
And personally I would rather a website delete my DMs than release them to the world. This is probably true of most of the people my DMs are with (whose opinion also matters).
* my reasoning here is that if old DMs have to live anywhere besides airgapped physically-secured encrypted backups, highly dispersed email accounts are the safest place because the main email providers are, in general, vastly more secure than LW2 is, and better equipped to respond rapidly to hacks, as well as extensive controls to limit exfiltration; they all have early access to Mythos-class models to reduce damage early; and they are ‘too big to fail’ in the sense that if something like Gmail is cracked wide open and leaked, it will likely be such a global cataclysm that people really won’t be able to abuse LW-related parts especially badly.
Ooh, interesting, I did fail to properly parse that you suggested directly attaching a DM export to the email. Yeah, that makes this less costly, though IMO still too annoying for anything I would want to use (of course I would prefer this over my DMs getting broadcast to the world, but really in almost any future I can see, the probability of anything like that still stays below 5%).
That is why I said “and attach an export”.*
And personally I would rather a website delete my DMs than release them to the world. This is probably true of most of the people my DMs are with (whose opinion also matters).
* my reasoning here is that if old DMs have to live anywhere besides airgapped physically-secured encrypted backups, highly dispersed email accounts are the safest place because the main email providers are, in general, vastly more secure than LW2 is, and better equipped to respond rapidly to hacks, as well as extensive controls to limit exfiltration; they all have early access to Mythos-class models to reduce damage early; and they are ‘too big to fail’ in the sense that if something like Gmail is cracked wide open and leaked, it will likely be such a global cataclysm that people really won’t be able to abuse LW-related parts especially badly.
Ooh, interesting, I did fail to properly parse that you suggested directly attaching a DM export to the email. Yeah, that makes this less costly, though IMO still too annoying for anything I would want to use (of course I would prefer this over my DMs getting broadcast to the world, but really in almost any future I can see, the probability of anything like that still stays below 5%).
Compromise: if various other platforms experience the equivalent of DMs leaking (or you otherwise update that it’s >>5%), quickly do the gwern plan?
Something like that seems pretty reasonable.