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if you live off canned food by yourself in an underground bunker with no sunlight and no internet, you will surely have a lot of privacy.

Privacy is something you want when needed, not as an end in itself.

If you optimize for surviving the worst dystopian outcomes, you probably won’t be in great shape for more likely ones.

And you might even be contributing to (and via the desire for cognitive consonance) helping the worst ones along.
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Marc Kat 6mo ago

"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."

Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk's Manifesto

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Chris Liss 6mo ago

Privacy should be the default. But what you selectively reveal is a tradeoff. I see a lot of people wanting to reveal nothing, and that too comes at a cost.