[ExI] lists going quiet, was: RE: list test

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2013-07-31 08:43, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:42:55PM +0200, Anders Sandberg wrote:
>> In fact,
>> if you want to ignite a big online discussion you do not want to put
>> it on a darknet, since you want to broadcast it as widely as
>> possible. Nyms are more important than darknets, IMHO.
>
> Nyms are no longer possible on the wider Internet.
> When I said that there are no other options to darknets,
> I wasn't kidding.

In that case it looks like public policy will be influenced only by 
those mainstream, brave or stupid enough to do it publicly.

A critical mass "darknet elite" might of course try to spread memes and 
ideas they have discussed internally, but doing so makes them vulnerable 
to tracking through their overt posts (check the work at HP information 
dynamics... who incidentally sold a lot of work to China for net 
monitoring, if I don't misremember). A below critical mass "darknet 
elite" will be intellectually ineffectual. Getting everybody onto 
darknets is about as easy as getting them to adopt a new Internet protocol.




-- 
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford University