if we could expand this conversation, i think that to a degree the reverse is true.

i think the neurotypes (we might call them paraphilias actually but you’d be surprised how many people can be reduced to a paraphilia) that connect sex with power imbalance (age, wealth, intelligence, strength, or just legal context like contracts and political relationships) also tend to hoard (valuable things, money, information, connections, data, favors) and these tendencies strengthen each other in a stronger way than most people understand

if you’re interested in what I’m saying, look up “impunity architecture”, especially if you’re Marxist because i think a lot of people think this is inherent to capitalism and it isn’t at all.

hey folks i got graphene, do i need to worry about this or is this what the sandbox is for?

GrapheneOS is okay for personal use but not for corporate use. If you’re smart you can absolutely run Headscale (worth noting that you cannot run a cloud instance of tailscale because the tunnel is coming from a foreign place, and once again do not do this if you’re representing a large business) and connect with your local LLM. this is both legal in China and smart to do in any country with any software, not just LLM stuff.

if you are in China temporarily on a business trip remember that most of the people being oppressed are people who are at risk of corruption on a mid to large scale, and remember that running your own private communications server like prosody or matrix through a headscale tunnel might raise eyebrows if you’re loudly recruiting in your region trying to get everyone to use it. as it turns out this is also true where i live, Lexington Kentucky, as police were skeptical about my obsession with privacy.

my college roommate in 2008 was schizo, his handle was NetSecSatan, he predicted all this stuff

but also we keep in mind the sheer size of the largest human government in the world. there’s about 35 million public sector employees

this was so fun, thank you