Bluntly: if you write it on Lesswrong or the Alignment Forum, or send it to a particular known person, governments will get a copy if they care to. Cybersecurity against state actors is really, really, really hard. Lesswrong is not capable of state-level cyberdefense.
If you must write it at all: do so with hardware which has been rendered physically unable to connect to the internet, and distribute only on paper, discussing only in areas without microphones. Consider authoring only on paper in the first place. Note that physical compromise of your home, workplace, and hardware is also a threat in this scenario.
(I doubt they care much, but this is basically what it takes if they do. Fortunately I think LW posters are very unlikely to be working with such high-grade secrets.)
When walls don’t work, can use ofbucsation? I have no clue about this, but wouldn’t it be much easier to use pbqrjbeqf for central wurds necessary for sensicle discussion so that it wouldn’t be sreachalbe, and then have your talkings with people on fb or something?
Would be easily found if written on same devices or accounts used for LW, but that sounds easier to work around than literally only using paper?
No, this is also easy to work around; language models are good at deobfuscation and you could probably even do it with edit-distance techniques. Nor do you have enough volume of discussion to hide from humans literally just reading all of it; nor is Facebook secure against state actors, nor is your computer secure. See also Security Mindset and Ordinary Paranoia.
Bluntly: if you write it on Lesswrong or the Alignment Forum, or send it to a particular known person, governments will get a copy if they care to. Cybersecurity against state actors is really, really, really hard. Lesswrong is not capable of state-level cyberdefense.
If you must write it at all: do so with hardware which has been rendered physically unable to connect to the internet, and distribute only on paper, discussing only in areas without microphones. Consider authoring only on paper in the first place. Note that physical compromise of your home, workplace, and hardware is also a threat in this scenario.
(I doubt they care much, but this is basically what it takes if they do. Fortunately I think LW posters are very unlikely to be working with such high-grade secrets.)
Yep, we are definitely not capable of state-level or even “determined individual” level of cyberdefense.
When walls don’t work, can use ofbucsation? I have no clue about this, but wouldn’t it be much easier to use pbqrjbeqf for central wurds necessary for sensicle discussion so that it wouldn’t be sreachalbe, and then have your talkings with people on fb or something?
Would be easily found if written on same devices or accounts used for LW, but that sounds easier to work around than literally only using paper?
No, this is also easy to work around; language models are good at deobfuscation and you could probably even do it with edit-distance techniques. Nor do you have enough volume of discussion to hide from humans literally just reading all of it; nor is Facebook secure against state actors, nor is your computer secure. See also Security Mindset and Ordinary Paranoia.