I’d love to here more thoughts from others on this quote (from Jeff):
Efforts to promote a more private future, through technology or regulation, individual choice or professional work, may or may not be worth it depending on how you view the chances of success and the benefits if successful. I think this is very unlikely to beat work on things like 80k’s most pressing problems, but I expect some people have high enough estimates on the value of privacy work (ex: risk of stable totalitarianism, suppression of important but unpopular ideas) that they’ll disagree.
My guess is that loss of privacy wouldn’t cause too much loss of ideas in liberal democracies. But I really have very little idea how much difference it makes in places where the government is (more) able to punish people for expressing the wrong ideas? To some degree, I kind of suspect that AI slop an “misinformation” are already pushing people towards only trusting sources that can somehow be traced to an identifiable human.
I’d love to here more thoughts from others on this quote (from Jeff):
My guess is that loss of privacy wouldn’t cause too much loss of ideas in liberal democracies. But I really have very little idea how much difference it makes in places where the government is (more) able to punish people for expressing the wrong ideas? To some degree, I kind of suspect that AI slop an “misinformation” are already pushing people towards only trusting sources that can somehow be traced to an identifiable human.