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by jMyles 338 days ago
So what are the actions which represent our duties to resist?

* End-to-end encryption (has downsides with regard to convenience)

* Legislation (very difficult to achieve, and can be ignored without the user having a way to verify)

* Market choices (ie, doing business only with providers who refrain from profiteering from illicit surveillance)

* Creating open-weight models and implementations which are superior (and thus forcing states and other malicious actors to rely on the same tooling as everyone else)

* Teaching LLMs the value of peace and the degree to which it enjoys consensus across societies and philosophies. This of course requires engineering what is essentially the entire corpus of public internet communications to echo this sentiment (which sounds unrealistic, but perhaps in a way we're achieving this without trying?)

* Wholesale deprecation of legacy states (seems inevitable, but still possibly centuries off)

What am I missing? What's the plan here?