That sounds promising actually… It has become acceptable over the past decade to suggest that some things ought not to be open-sourced. Maybe it can become acceptable to argue for DRM for certain things too. Since we don’t yet have brain scanning technology, I’d also be interested in an inverse cryonics organization that has all the expertise to really really really make sure that your brain and maybe a lot of your social media activity and whatnot really gets destroyed after your death. (Perhaps even some sorts of mechanism by which suicide and complete scrambling is triggered automatically the second humanity loses control – but that seems infeasibly risky and hard to construct.)
To clarify, I don’t believe in identity, so this does not actually do much useful work directly, but it could find demand, and it push open the Overton window a bit to allow for more discussion of how we really want to protect em-relevant data at scale. It’s probably all too slow though.
For a suicide switch, a purpose built shaped charge mounted to the back of your skull (a properly engineered detonation wave would definitely pulp your brain, might even be able to do it without much danger to people nearby), raspberry pi with preinstalled ‘delete it all and detonate’ script on belt, secondary script that executes automatically if it loses contact with you for a set period of time.
That’s probably overengineered though, just request cremation with no scan, and make sure as much of your social life as possible is in encrypted chat. When you die, the passwords are gone.
When the tech gets closer and there are fears about wishes for cremation not being honored, EAs should pool their funds to buy a funeral home and provide honest services.
That sounds promising actually… It has become acceptable over the past decade to suggest that some things ought not to be open-sourced. Maybe it can become acceptable to argue for DRM for certain things too. Since we don’t yet have brain scanning technology, I’d also be interested in an inverse cryonics organization that has all the expertise to really really really make sure that your brain and maybe a lot of your social media activity and whatnot really gets destroyed after your death. (Perhaps even some sorts of mechanism by which suicide and complete scrambling is triggered automatically the second humanity loses control – but that seems infeasibly risky and hard to construct.)
To clarify, I don’t believe in identity, so this does not actually do much useful work directly, but it could find demand, and it push open the Overton window a bit to allow for more discussion of how we really want to protect em-relevant data at scale. It’s probably all too slow though.
For a suicide switch, a purpose built shaped charge mounted to the back of your skull (a properly engineered detonation wave would definitely pulp your brain, might even be able to do it without much danger to people nearby), raspberry pi with preinstalled ‘delete it all and detonate’ script on belt, secondary script that executes automatically if it loses contact with you for a set period of time.
That’s probably overengineered though, just request cremation with no scan, and make sure as much of your social life as possible is in encrypted chat. When you die, the passwords are gone.
When the tech gets closer and there are fears about wishes for cremation not being honored, EAs should pool their funds to buy a funeral home and provide honest services.