As far as I know: yes I am good at keeping secrets.
How do you know?
People have observed, that I am very concious about talking about other people. I say things like “you better ask them this in Person” or changing topic when permission groups don’t match (e. g. more people present than previously). Like many people, I am concious what’s on red tape and what’s not. Personally I advocate for transparency but I’ve learned that some people only make deals when off-tape.
This results in people telling me more secrets. They know I can keep them—they have observed, how I not crack when asked about information I probably have.
Person in my sports club once told me about patients of them. After describing vague psychological behaviour I stopped them and said something along the line of “I probably don’t know the person but it’s easier than you might think, to pin down individuals based on behaviour”.
I have a degree in computer science with focus on information management, information transportation, analysis… etc. Maybe that’s because I sort of know how much information can be contained inside random excerps.
I advocate in fahour of the GDPR and am fairly privacy-minded. I know how e-mail addresses can be used to trivially match online accounts. Thats’s why my LessWrong account has a randomly generated e-mail address. Etc.
What exactly do you mean by secret?
‘Secret’ is someone not to be shared. It’s very different from ‘not telling’. ‘Not telling’ means that I say it thruthfully when directly confronted. For example the question “Are you seeing other girls?” is a classic question which I would put under ‘not telling’. There’s nothing to be gained from yelling it into the world. But if someone asks I’d answer the truth (example completely fictional).
‘Secret’ on the other hand requires some more active work. Tracking the information which a person knows or knows not. Knowing the relationship between the people. If A told me this and B is a trustee of A then this person probably either knows it already of A hides it from B. That sort of stuff.
I think the easiest way to solve this is by containerizing ‘Secrets’. Like in a way of ‘never say this unless you double checked that it’s okay to say right now’. Usually I say the truth. There are no logical loopholes if you answer “can’t tell” instead of faking something.
Also helpful:
I have a reputation for being a really bad liar. That’s good. Because ‘acting like a liar’ is a good thing when you want to tell the truth on paper while still gaining no acceptancy.
I think my definiton of secret is a bit wonky and might need adjusting. Overall I think the term ‘Secret’ ist used for too many vague things.
As far as I know: yes I am good at keeping secrets.
People have observed, that I am very concious about talking about other people. I say things like “you better ask them this in Person” or changing topic when permission groups don’t match (e. g. more people present than previously). Like many people, I am concious what’s on red tape and what’s not. Personally I advocate for transparency but I’ve learned that some people only make deals when off-tape.
This results in people telling me more secrets. They know I can keep them—they have observed, how I not crack when asked about information I probably have.
Person in my sports club once told me about patients of them. After describing vague psychological behaviour I stopped them and said something along the line of “I probably don’t know the person but it’s easier than you might think, to pin down individuals based on behaviour”. I have a degree in computer science with focus on information management, information transportation, analysis… etc. Maybe that’s because I sort of know how much information can be contained inside random excerps. I advocate in fahour of the GDPR and am fairly privacy-minded. I know how e-mail addresses can be used to trivially match online accounts. Thats’s why my LessWrong account has a randomly generated e-mail address. Etc.
‘Secret’ is someone not to be shared. It’s very different from ‘not telling’. ‘Not telling’ means that I say it thruthfully when directly confronted. For example the question “Are you seeing other girls?” is a classic question which I would put under ‘not telling’. There’s nothing to be gained from yelling it into the world. But if someone asks I’d answer the truth (example completely fictional). ‘Secret’ on the other hand requires some more active work. Tracking the information which a person knows or knows not. Knowing the relationship between the people. If A told me this and B is a trustee of A then this person probably either knows it already of A hides it from B. That sort of stuff. I think the easiest way to solve this is by containerizing ‘Secrets’. Like in a way of ‘never say this unless you double checked that it’s okay to say right now’. Usually I say the truth. There are no logical loopholes if you answer “can’t tell” instead of faking something.
Also helpful: I have a reputation for being a really bad liar. That’s good. Because ‘acting like a liar’ is a good thing when you want to tell the truth on paper while still gaining no acceptancy.
I think my definiton of secret is a bit wonky and might need adjusting. Overall I think the term ‘Secret’ ist used for too many vague things.