The study talks about giving money to people after prison. It doesn’t give any evidence that the prison method can be skipped. It might make prison cheaper, since lowering recidivism means less inmates which means less cost. But it doesn’t replace prison.

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!

Yes but I’m saying the tech could get more advanced and locked down, like all DRM tech has been progressing

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

Afaik under the current system, rehabilitation is already one of the goals of prison (akin to parents giving their kids time out or grounding them in their room). I’m sure it’s questionable how effective it is. Sure is cheaper than other rehabilitation methods though.

I’m sure in the future they’ll have a firmware update system for rotating their keys if they’ve been leaked. And if you try to keep your TV offline to prevent the key rotation, they’ll still rotate the encryption key for the stream (maybe wait a year for most people to receive the firmware update), and your offline TV won’t be able to decode the stream anymore

then that compression would be their “consciousness”

I guess I should have specified “guilty” prisoners to be more in line with the quote

monkey paw curls

due to the injustice stated in the post, 10 random prisoners will be released

afaik you can’t screen record DRM content, it’s encrypted all the way to the TV or monitor. The OS never sees a decrypted stream. This is why if you try to screenshot Netflix the window just appears as a black frame.

Those sentences don’t connect, your reading makes no sense. Try this:

first comment: sex isn’t just about penetration

second comment: and yet a lot of women seem to think this, given how many just lay there

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.

Yes, certain observations can be uncomfortable but that’s not a bad thing. It provides substance, for one, which your comment lacks

What kind of abuse are you talking about? I doubt you’re talking about a 51% attack, which is incredibly hard. I’m guessing you are talking about social engineering, like where some scammer gets a poor soul to leak their bitcoin wallet or something like that.

In these cases, yes a centralized payment system can be useful, because the authority in charge can just reverse transactions that are deemed fraudulent or the result of a scam. But that same authority can do things like ban all payments to Steam for porn games (like the recent Visa Mastercard drama). That same authority can say “GrapheneOS and Pinephone users aren’t allowed to make NFC payments”.

In cases like these it would be nice for there to be an alternative to centralized systems, at least for those technologically literate enough to use these alternative systems.

they’re not controlling her, they’re trying to provide an alternative that she’ll stick with

What a lot of people are forgetting to mention here, is that the reason why maintaining a browser is so hard is because Google keeps updating the standards, and has the resources to do so, while Firefox struggles to keep up.

Remember, Google Chrome is Google’s OS. Like Microsoft has Windows, and Apple has MacOS. This is why web standards include support for USB, GPU, and other esoteric use cases. It’s in Google’s best interest for users to use web apps to do things instead of desktop apps, since that means they are likely using Chrome, within Google’s control. And Google has a perverse incentive to keep evolving these standards so that other browsers struggle to keep up, and their browsers feel outdated and feature lacking relative to Chrome.

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.