Have you experienced Silvesterabend (New Year's Eve) in a major German city? It feels like a warzone. In the context of fireworks specifically, this image of Germany as an over-regulated nanny state feels particularly…
I don't think you have it right- the analogy to woodworking and craftsmanship is a category error and probably misses the broad thrust of the essay. The goal of a woodworker or craftsman is the production of a finished…
"Building an application used to mean orchestrating roles over time: one person designed, another challenged the architecture, a third tested, a fourth deployed." What? That's not my experience at all, this lost me very…
What historical examples are you thinking of?
I don't disagree that you got a window into American values, I just don't agree that proximity to American values is the same as civilization versus primitivism.
Just trying to understand your point here- so non-westerners are primitive and irrational, unlike the West, led by Donald Trump, champion of rational, elevated discourse?
Revolutionary terror in 1789 wasn't about killing the Bourgeisie- the French Revolution was a Bourgeois revolution- the Revolution was about overthrowing the Aristocracy, the nobles, the people with, as you say, titles-…
So I should listen to 4Chan but not Pakistanis?
How do you square your directive that leaders use X as a way to get an option poll or pulse of a nation with phenomena like this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/rightwing-in... where a huge amount of…
I decided to put this to the test. What I would expect a human to reply: "Um... OK?" What Claude Sonnet 4.5 replied: "Hi there! I understand you're planning to repeat the same sentence. I'm here whenever you'd like to…
Have you experienced Silvesterabend (New Year's Eve) in a major German city? It feels like a warzone. In the context of fireworks specifically, this image of Germany as an over-regulated nanny state feels particularly…
I don't think you have it right- the analogy to woodworking and craftsmanship is a category error and probably misses the broad thrust of the essay. The goal of a woodworker or craftsman is the production of a finished…
"Building an application used to mean orchestrating roles over time: one person designed, another challenged the architecture, a third tested, a fourth deployed." What? That's not my experience at all, this lost me very…
What historical examples are you thinking of?
I don't disagree that you got a window into American values, I just don't agree that proximity to American values is the same as civilization versus primitivism.
Just trying to understand your point here- so non-westerners are primitive and irrational, unlike the West, led by Donald Trump, champion of rational, elevated discourse?
Revolutionary terror in 1789 wasn't about killing the Bourgeisie- the French Revolution was a Bourgeois revolution- the Revolution was about overthrowing the Aristocracy, the nobles, the people with, as you say, titles-…
So I should listen to 4Chan but not Pakistanis?
How do you square your directive that leaders use X as a way to get an option poll or pulse of a nation with phenomena like this: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/rightwing-in... where a huge amount of…
I decided to put this to the test. What I would expect a human to reply: "Um... OK?" What Claude Sonnet 4.5 replied: "Hi there! I understand you're planning to repeat the same sentence. I'm here whenever you'd like to…