Very well said, thank you. And this culture of toxicity is not conducive to mainstream adoption of these platforms.

Yeah, because the Americans allowed it to happen. Spare me the pity party. The French are rioting on the streets over an increase in the price of stinky cheese while the Americans will just roll over when ICE kidnaps their neighbours and act like they are helpless victims. Give me a fucking break

Yeah and what happened to elections once they came to power?

’m just using your criteria to answer your questions

No, you aren’t.

are you suggesting trump hasn’t?

Yeah, I am. The Dems just crushed hm last night. Do you think he rigged that election? Get serious.

Do you seriously think that Protonmail has no security review?

Not perfect != shit.

That’s your choice, but if you want to avoid AI generated code then you may as well become Amish at this point. Even the Linux kernel uses it

Are you suggesting that none of these people have interfered with the democratic processes in their respective countries? Because that is false. Log out and read a book buddy

The “private mail space” ain’t that big my guy

I know Hitler (for example) was elected but he suspended elections in Germany. Literally name one dictator that hasn’t suspended democratic processes.

And yes Trump is a dictator

You are not a serious person. Dictator != bad leader. So long as Trump was democratically elected he is not a dictator. I’m not sure if you’re American but if you are, please take more responsibility for your countries electoral choices.

It’s not a game

You’re right it’s not a game, it’s a fight for survival. Encrypted services are being attacked in the EU, Australia, Canada, India, China, and the US. The CEO is trying to do what he can to keep his company afloat before some stupid anti-encryption prevents him from accessing his biggest consumer base. Is a bribe playing dirty? Sure. But the other team is also playing dirty

proton has 500 employees.

Exactly. Why pick on the little guy? Oh wait I already know the answer, because they us AI. Well I hate to break it to you buddy but basically every piece of tech uses AI behind the scenes now. If you want to boycott a company because it uses AI you’d literally be left with a bricked computer because MacOS, Windows, the Linux kernel and FreeBSD all use AI.

Is the product worse though? I’ve literally noticed zero difference and I’ve been using Protonmail for a decade.

If you want to disavow every piece of tech using AI then good luck to you. You’d have to say goodbye to Linux and FreeBSD for starters, so you literally won’t have an operating system.

By dictator do you mean Trump? I absolutely do not like Trump (I’m in Canada and he started a trade war with our country and wants to annex us. We all hate him!). That said he is not a dictator. He was democratically elected. Calling him a dictator takes the agency away from the American people. It makes it seem like they are all passive victims rather than the ones that caused this shit show, but they did cause it, so I won’t like them off that easy.

And bribery seems to be part of the game in the US unfortunately. Do you think he gave Trump money because he likes the guy? In all likelihood he was just playing the game that every tech CEO is playing and looking out for his own best interests. Especially when the US gov is already so hostile to private online platforms already as is, can you really blame him?

That’s an important clarification, thank you

ArXiv is not without problems though. It is too centralized. I’ve heard of people getting kicked off the platform for some arbitrary reason, or due to some administrative error, and they have very little recourse. Given how important the platform has become to promote one’s research career, this is a bad place to be.

This doesn’t really answer my question

The rationalist community doesn’t focus strictly on epistemology (though it is a big focus). They often bring other areas of the humanities into it too, like moral philosophy (like your food production example). In any case the situation is the same. They think they are the first to consider these questions, and are completely oblivious to the vast academic research that has been written on the topic. So they reinvent the wheel and collectively make a lot of beginner mistakes without realizing it. Then they write blog posts that flesh out these poorly informed and poorly reasoned ideas, and act like these blog posts are major breakthroughs in human thought, when they aren’t. They only advertise the ignorance of the community.

The “rationalist” community is what happens when you get a bunch of STEM kids try to rebuild the humanities from the ground-up. They think they are the first people ever to discover the field of epistemology and then try to rebuild it from scratch, using cringy terminology and shallow reasoning. If you are actually interested in epistemology then research it using more reputable sources (e.g. sep). The rationalist community over estimates its own importance and level of insight and they do not engage with the relevant literature