Džeimsas metode pēc būtības ir advancēta "dekriptēšana ar lodāmuru", kas sapārota ar middle-man attack. Ciešanas ir the whole point of it, līdz ar to humānai komunikācijas nodibināšanai tā nederēs.

"That's the very point of the exercise: give one of your subjects the means to end the pain, but give the other the information required to use it. To one you might present a single shape, while showing the other a whole selection. The pain will stop when the being with the menu chooses the item its partner has seen. [..] If—when—they trip the off switch, you'll know at least some of the information they exchanged; and if you record everything that passed between them, you'll start to get some idea of how they exchanged it."