I'd like to introduce you to some of the most productive Germans on the planet and then we can have a frank discussion of whether or not the airy bullshit that passes for business communication is in fact a booster of productivity.
I'm very curious now whether speaking to an LLM multi-language base model in German, results in it generating German-language responses that are more ego-stroking than German speakers would tend to be (presumably because it learned "be polite" as a general rule); or whether it results in the LLM being more direct in German than it is in English (presumably because it learned "be polite" as a rule of English, but not as a rule of German.)
I wonder what such Germans think of the manners of feudal Japan when watching something like the recent tv show Shogun where it's not about feeling insecure, it's about showing proper respect (according to that culture).
