Episode

"Intelligence Dissolves Privacy" by Vaniver

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LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
Published
May 2, 2026
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644
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Summary

The future is going to be different from the present. Let's think about how. Specifically, our expectations about what's reasonable are downstream of our past experiences, and those experiences were downstream of our options (and the options other people in our society had). As those options change, so too our experiences, and our expectations of what's reasonable. I once thought it was reasonable to pick up the phone and call someone, and to pick up my phone when it rang; things have chan...