Secrecy is the exception. Mostly no one cares about your startup idea or will remember your hazardous brainstorm, no one is going to cause you trouble, and so on, and honesty is almost always the best policy.
That doesn’t mean always tell everyone everything, but you need to know what you are worried about if you are letting this block you.
On infohazards, I think people were far too worried for far too long. The actual dangerous idea turned out to be that AGI was a dangerous idea, not any specific thing. There are exceptions, but you need a very good reason, and an even better reason if it is an individual you are talking with.
Trust in terms of ‘they won’t steal from me’ or ‘they will do what they promise’ is another question with no easy answers.
If you are planning something radical enough to actually get people’s attention (e.g. breaking laws, using violence, fraud of various kinds, etc) then you would want to be a lot more careful who you tell, but also—don’t do that?
Secrecy is the exception. Mostly no one cares about your startup idea or will remember your hazardous brainstorm, no one is going to cause you trouble, and so on, and honesty is almost always the best policy.
That doesn’t mean always tell everyone everything, but you need to know what you are worried about if you are letting this block you.
On infohazards, I think people were far too worried for far too long. The actual dangerous idea turned out to be that AGI was a dangerous idea, not any specific thing. There are exceptions, but you need a very good reason, and an even better reason if it is an individual you are talking with.
Trust in terms of ‘they won’t steal from me’ or ‘they will do what they promise’ is another question with no easy answers.
If you are planning something radical enough to actually get people’s attention (e.g. breaking laws, using violence, fraud of various kinds, etc) then you would want to be a lot more careful who you tell, but also—don’t do that?
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