I’ve been enjoying this sequence on privacy, in no small part because I disagree with some of its fundamental premises so strongly. (Hopefully, someday soon I’ll make the time to pull together a sequence laying out the grounds of my disagreement.)
But without backing up that teaser (sorry), I’ll say that the brief mention of privacy as a guard against falling into inferential-distance chasms seems very straightforwardly true in hindsight (even to one skeptical of the guard-against-coercive-control angle), though I hadn’t been able to put it nearly so cleanly in my own thoughts. If you’ve got even a short post’s worth of content on related ideas in deploying privacy in deeply cooperative/aligned contexts, I’d be especially interested to hear more thoughts in that direction.
I’ve been enjoying this sequence on privacy, in no small part because I disagree with some of its fundamental premises so strongly. (Hopefully, someday soon I’ll make the time to pull together a sequence laying out the grounds of my disagreement.)
But without backing up that teaser (sorry), I’ll say that the brief mention of privacy as a guard against falling into inferential-distance chasms seems very straightforwardly true in hindsight (even to one skeptical of the guard-against-coercive-control angle), though I hadn’t been able to put it nearly so cleanly in my own thoughts. If you’ve got even a short post’s worth of content on related ideas in deploying privacy in deeply cooperative/aligned contexts, I’d be especially interested to hear more thoughts in that direction.