For me, his best work was Muppet Treasure Island. I'm glad I watched this BTS video with him: I had no idea he had a stroke in 2012 and hasn't acted since.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzU8f4HaQw0

I suspect it's related to EU-required watermarking:

> Having said that, in areas where there is an arbitrary choice between particular words or terms within the code, the watermark can be used, such as comments within code. But by definition, it will have a negligible effect on the actual code produced. [1]

I've found that you can reduce the prolixity before (or afterwards) by asking it to use ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English or ISO 24495-1 after deciding whether a particular comment is worthwhile. (I've since included a standard for "worthwhile" because the clanker doesn't have a good bead on _that_ matter.)

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark

What definition of "worthwhile" comments do you include in your prompt?

You could create an output style to make this prevalent.

which is just the same as having it in your AGENTS.md and also having a agent_settled hook that reminds it on how to talk

Dust can reduce capacity by 40% in the desert.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40807-017-0043-y

I wish philosophers—everyone, really—would provide a definition of their neologisms. I'd prefer a succinct, Aristotlian one but I'll settle for anything approximating it.

This is probably the best source, but it's completely unavailable online:

https://www.reed.edu/events/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26even...

What a great link, thanks.

Hopefully there will be some artifacts from this that will be available to the greater public.

The guy who called the Federal Reserve the "penny in the fuse box" of the economy was not an "Ayn Rand disciple" by the time he took the chairmanship. Power as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under Ford really transformed him and I think severed the tenuous hold he had on her principles.

I didn't see that anyone had done it (and I think the commentary has died down entirely) but here's an Artifact that extracts Ries' responses plus the original question into a table:

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/0f204165-e363-4553-a4ce-4...

100% this. People used to read newspapers and books on mas transit and Walkmans have been with us since the early 80s.

I think it comes down to people not _wanting_ to interact with anyone outside of their circle. I pull out my earbuds _constantly_ when I'm out in order to greet people, interact with retail staff, and hear things around me.

It's normally been called a "white elephant" but this framing is a perfect completion to Torvalds' previously-two-part troika.

Thank you for sharing it!

I thought this seemed significant at the time: https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx/pull/1983