Idea:
Have everyone who wants to share and recieve potentially exfohazardous ideas/research send out a 4096-bit RSA public key.
Then, make a clone of the alignment forum, where every time you make a post, you provide a list of the public keys of the people who you want to see the post. Then, on the client side, it encrypts the post using all of those public keys. The server only ever holds encrypted posts.
Then, users can put in their own private key to see a post. The encrypted post gets downloaded to the user’s machine and is decrypted on the client side. Perhaps require users to be on open-source browsers for extra security.
Maybe also add some post-quantum thing like what Signal uses so that we don’t all die when quantum computers get good enough.
Should I build this?
Is there someone else here more experienced with csec who should build this instead?
Some off the top of my head:
Outer Alignment Research (e.g. analytic moral philosophy in an attempt to extrapolate CEV) seems to be totally useless to capabilities, so we should almost definitely publish that.
Evals for Governance? Not sure about this since a lot of eval research helps capabilities, but if it leads to regulation that lengthens timelines, it could be net positive.
Edit: oops i didn’t see tammy’s comment