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I believe that technical work which enhances safety culture is generally very positive.

All of the examples that you mentioned share one critical non-technical aspect though. Their results are publicly available (I guess they were funded by general public, e.g. in case of "BadLlama" - by donations and grants to a foundation Palisade Research and IIIT, an Indian national institute). If you took the very same "technical" research and have it only available to a potentially shady private company, then that technical information could help them to indeed circum... (read more)

Thank you very much for the in-depth comment, it is indeed very helpful for me to hear. Let me try to address your points:
- "How does evolution go backward in time..." - I don't think it does. Let me try to explain the mechanism:

(1) groups of people, whether families, tribes, villages and then larger ones have existed for pretty much as long as human species (even down to pre-humans). We called it a "state", as it is the current incantation, but generally speaking a system of cooperating groups of people has perhaps always been stronger than individual peo... (read more)

Thank you! I've updated the article.

We expected that there may be some minor things that people will not like about the article, but the current negative karma suggests that we have misjudged it. Since this is our first article, it would be especially helpful to hear your comments.

Thanks! The key to topic selection is where we find that we are most disagreeing with the popular opinions. For example, the number of times I can cope with hearing someone saying "I don't care about privacy, I have nothing to hide" is limited. We're trying to have this article out before that limit is reached. But in order to reason about privacy's utility and to ground it in root axioms, we first have to dive into why we need freedom. That, in turn requires thinking about mechanisms of a happy society. And that depends on our understanding of happiness, hence that's where we're starting.

Hi LessWrong Community!

I'm new here, though I've been an LW reader for a while. I'm representing complicated.world website, where we strive to use similar rationality approach as here and we also explore philosophical problems. The difference is that, instead of being a community-driven portal like you, we are a small team which is working internally to achieve consensus and only then we publish our articles. This means that we are not nearly as pluralistic, diverse or democratic as you are, but on the other hand we try to present a single coherent view on... (read more)