The way you debate won't make you friends. When you attack the way you do, the other side just discounts what you have to say. There's a better way to do this

The way you debate won't make you friends. When you attack the way you do, the other side just discounts what you have to say. There's a better way to do this. > This is where you're objectively showing where you're getting it wrong. [...] The text I elided in that quote says nothing about how GP is wrong. Saying "objectively" doesn't make it so. You have to back up your arguments. In a way you're quite right: links don't have to be URIs, hypermedia doesn't have to be HTML, and links don't even have to appear in the media when you can construct them algorithmically (in the last case you can argue that even though they are absent in the media, they are notionally still there). However, GP is right that only an intelligent agent will be able to use useful things with links of types they don't already have baked in logic for doing things with, and this is really the key problem with HATEOAS: it's too human-centered, and implicitly so. Anyways, be kind.