My comment was saying that telepathics could still benefit from local processing and compression. Not that they must use those processes. I’m refuting the comic’s implication that telepathics would not have “consciousness”. Though your comment was interesting nonetheless!

They care about privacy and security, not marketing. They probably hate that they have to do marketing in the first place. It’s honestly relatable.

what’s a left wing mistake that they might get called out for?

Can’t tell if your talking about the (human) Proton marketer responding on reddit, or the (AI) Claude and Opus 🙃

why is this comment so buried. An official response should be the top comment, and as of writing this only has 2 upvotes

In capitalism, the consumer need only care about two things: the product, and the price. This makes it easy for consumers to compare products and prices, and pick the best “bang for the buck”. This fuels competition, which in turn, incentivizes production efficiency.

Sometimes externalities are factored in. For example carbon taxes. But these are simply factored into the price, so the consumer can still compare products and prices like before.

This “commodity fetishism” that Marx complains about, is exactly what makes capitalist economies so effective and efficient.

Even if we define consciousness as a mechanism for information compression, there’s no reason why telepathic individuals wouldn’t use it as well. Larger bandwidth doesn’t mean individuals would just waste it all by sending through whatever noise goes through their brain, they would still filter out their thoughts, they’d just be able to send out more at once.

Most issues are complex enough that we have to delegate trust. It’s not feasible to verify every claim yourself. And trust vs “blind trust” is an arbitrary line.

I initially viewed this as xenophobic, and was like “the comic author can’t be this stupid right?”

But actually maybe the message isn’t the typical “perceived good thing with hidden negative downside” that their comics typically have. Maybe this comic is just saying not to judge a restaurant’s staff by whatever ethnic food they make.

happens all the time in Asia lol

It depends on how much they care. If the chinese people running the restaurant are just half-assing japanese food and using japanese culture for the name and clout, its disrespectful. Effectively just trying to profit off the culture. Whereas if those chinese people are trying their best to understand and replicate the culture, it’s fine.

Hot take: a japanese person can “appropriate” their own culture. If they just take advantage of their name and ethnicity, without actually learning about the culture. This is just really rare in practice because people of any ethnicity are usually forced to learn about their own culture when growing up

Authoritarianism is the more efficient governing model.

The hard part is picking the right authority. That’s what the other models factor in. But yeah authoritarianism can be more efficient if we pick the perfect authority

Some people have done such horrible things beyond a shadow of a doubt that even death is too much of a mercy. They should be kept alive and tortured mentally and physically every day until they die of natural disease processes.

but…why? What good does this serve? It just wastes time and resources on the torture

I think you should at least donate if you can. It’s not about whether you are forced to use it, but whether you appreciated the service (which you probably did if you used it over all the other services available). If the service goes away due to lack of funding, you’re still forced to use email, but you’ll just be forced to use a worse email service.

OK well if the concern is scale then I do think that is solvable. There is work being done to automate cooking more and more

But we also need to go to the toilet a few times a day. Doesn’t mean everybody should do some plumbling. Why can’t food be treated like a utility, like electricity and water?

haha what a riot! I may be paranoid but I’m not schizophrenic, the voices told me so.

Well it was a blast chatting with you friend, beware of the ip-monitoring governments and stay safe out

that list feels a bit outdated. What about write a simple program? Make basic 3d models and 3d prints? Some photography and video editing. Design a simple website. Even if you aren’t a tiktoker, these are fairly essential skills in the modern world. And if we’re throwing in poetry and painting, might as well throw in music, sports, sewing, gardening.

I’m not saying humans should specialize on a single skill. I just think people should be able to choose not to cook in favor of learning other skills. At a certain point, society should reach a point where somebody can say “I don’t need a kitchen in my house, I’ll just eat out all the time”.

Wouldn’t it be better to have affordable delivery food? Cooks focus on the cooking, regular people won’t have to spend so much time learning and doing cooking, and focus on their own work/play

It’s important to not go down that route because if you can’t ever trust then you can’t believe you can ever have privacy or anonymity except when you completely retreat from all communication or interaction both electronically and physically.

I do agree that it’s an extreme threat model, so it’s not one I use personally. I guess some people may try anyways though 😅

here’s an article about the proton case: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/09/protonmail-now-keeps-ip-logs.html

That was a colorful and fun read, can’t say I can match that. But I think if you are against the feds the assumption has to be that they infiltrated the other party. This is the whole reason why canaries exist. Because many jurisdictions allow the feds to force companies to do things and keep silent about it (gag order). For example, Protonmail was once forced to log IPs to track down the owner lf an email account.

By the same token, if Posteo is able to associate a nonce to an account, then they’re also able to tell the feds. Even if you are in a different jurisdiction from Posteo, feds can work across state lines through international agreements (which I think was also the case in the Protonmail case).