As far as I know, there is unfortunately no system for this. I think what people typically do is contact MIRI leadership, but I don’t know MIRI leadership to have particularly put silent people in touch with other silent people as a result.
The best (but still complicated) idea I have as a general solution (beside contacting MIRI) is to set up a website explicitly as a “shelling point for infohazard communication” and allow people to publish public keys and encrypted messages there. When you think you have an infohazard, you generate a key using a standardized method and your idea as seed. This would allow everyone with the same idea to publish messages that only they can read. E.g. Einstein would make a key from the string “Energy is mass times the speed of light squared.” and variations thereof (using different languages). And leave contact information as a message.
I don’t know if there is any decentralized and encrypted messenger protocol that would allow for that. With that, the website would only have to contain the instructions to avoid the legal consequences of hosting.
As far as I know, there is unfortunately no system for this. I think what people typically do is contact MIRI leadership, but I don’t know MIRI leadership to have particularly put silent people in touch with other silent people as a result.
Thank you.
The best (but still complicated) idea I have as a general solution (beside contacting MIRI) is to set up a website explicitly as a “shelling point for infohazard communication” and allow people to publish public keys and encrypted messages there. When you think you have an infohazard, you generate a key using a standardized method and your idea as seed. This would allow everyone with the same idea to publish messages that only they can read. E.g. Einstein would make a key from the string “Energy is mass times the speed of light squared.” and variations thereof (using different languages). And leave contact information as a message.
I don’t know if there is any decentralized and encrypted messenger protocol that would allow for that. With that, the website would only have to contain the instructions to avoid the legal consequences of hosting.
In most cases, I would not expect different people who come up with the same insight to conceptualize it the same way with the same words.