SauntSolaire

Is this sarcasm?

It's not like it's in the url, they could easily change the page title

> simply for being one of the last communist countries

Well, that plus their 50 nuclear warheads and continued ICBM development, amongst other things.

E-books supposedly, since the parent explicitly specified paper books.

Perhaps Grimoire?

"A grimoire is a textbook of magic and sorcery. Traditionally, it contains instructions for casting spells, performing divination, creating magical objects like talismans, and summoning supernatural entities such as angels or spirits."

Seems to fit.

For a lot of people, privacy can simply mean not having to share a space with someone else.

> You should investigate the repeated prisoners dilemma.

Well aware. Obviously, the entirety of human civilization is a bit more complicated than a prisoners dilemma, iterated or not. Yet prisoners dilemma's and races to the bottom still exist, and it makes no sense to argue against them in the abstract.

That's somewhat understandable, what I find more interesting is that people around me won't show up unless it's between 70-80 degrees out.

Also "Sequoyah’s syllabary was not simply a creative triumph, but a new means of self-government and cultural memory"

I mean, your proposed logic seems to be quite consistent from a basic game theory perspective. Defecting in a prisoners dilemma and races to the bottom are both well observed phenomena.

I would be wary of extrapolating too much from the talking buttons. Review the clever hans effect and (the critiques of) Koko the gorilla for examples of people misattributing classical conditioning for intentionality.

The fact is that humans are exceedingly quick to find patterns in random data (e.g. horescopes, any form of divination), and that tendency gets amplified when the opportunity to anthropomorphize a cute animal is presented.

Or "we'll ship our code as binary blobs so you can't reverse engineer it".. oh, wait

I don't think you understand the hypothetical being discussed

Are you talking about the pixel buds app? They ask you on setup if you want it installed, and you can uninstall it anytime. Seems pretty far from "mandatory".

What's being discussed is not at all limited to people experiencing instability