Max Weber
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by Max Weber. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Max Weber's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal
Nobody forced me to keep typing at three in the morning. That is the part I cannot get past.
In You On AI, I described the moment over the Atlantic when I recognized that the exhilaration had curdled — that I was no longer writing because the book demanded it but because I could not stop. I described the whip and the hand that held it belonging to the same person. I knew it while it was happening. I kept going.
I had every word for what the tool was doing. I had no word for what I was doing to myself.
Max Weber had the word. He had it in 1905, more than a century before Claude Code existed. He called it the
