Researcher urges frontier lab staff to read Ellsberg on secrets and epistemics
idavidrein · x · 2026-10-07
idavidrein highlights Daniel Ellsberg's writing on how access to classified or highly sensitive information warps people's epistemics, arguing it should be required reading for anyone joining a frontier lab and gaining access to its secrets.
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