Lock-In Risk Needs More Researchers; Here's Where to Start

Epistemic status: slightly outdated ideas, only a shallow interpretation of many areas, a somewhat arbitrary taxonomy, and posted because I can't prioritise spending more time on this but think it should be public.Lock-in risk research is neglected and potentially very high impact. I’ve done some thinking about the threat models for lock-in over the last year while starting Formation Research, and I’m now writing them up in this post. Both to put the ideas in my head into writing, and make somet...