Is there a known method to find others who came across the same potential infohazard without spoiling it to the public? 2024-10-17T10:47:05.099Z

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Comment by hive on Is there a known method to find others who came across the same potential infohazard without spoiling it to the public? · 2024-10-17T11:51:54.576Z · LW · GW

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.