Aristotle continues:

'What a man wants to be, is better than what a man wants to seem (to be), for in aiming at that he is aiming more at reality'.

Here Plato would focus on the ethical reasoning of being rather than seeming, while Aristotle is primarily concerned with alignment to reality.

'And it is also natural for all to delight in works of imitation.'

/ Aristotle, Poetics, Chap 3, 1448-b-9

Aristotle's remark here relates to delighting in realistic representations of things. He points out that we learn something from observing a realistic imitation. Aristotle continues by observing that learning is the 'greatest of pleasures'.

Aristotle studied at Plato's Academy in Athens, which brings continuity from Socrates -> Plato -> Aristotle.

Plato:

'And when someone honors beauty more than virtue, this constitutes nothing other than a real and thorough dishonoring of the soul'

/ Plato, Laws, Book B, 727d.

Socrates and Plato held an often times contemptful view of the poet or artist, expressed at several occasions in Plato's Republic.

This is likely because the artist was viewed as an imitator. Reality is of course of higher value than any imitation. Add to this that Socrates was ridiculed by contemporary poets.

Aristotle:

'What aims at reality is better than what aims at appearance'.

/ Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book I, 1365-b.

From this we can see a clear difference between Plato and Aristotle. Plato is mainly concerned with ethics, whereas Aristotle is more analytical in regards to substance. Aristotle also values ethics highly, but he is interested in studying matters deeper.

🧵Thread on Aristotle, art and poetry, based on his book Poetics.

The below quote is from Will Durant as he attempts to encapsulate Aristotle's view on art:

💯 I'm using 3 paid relays now and while I don't want to suggest that people must do this, the Amethyst experience has certainly been boosted.

I was a Nostr bear for about a month or two. Typically I avoid new things that come with a lot of buzz and I prefer to take my time to let various options sink in. The more I thought about it the more sense it made.

Decentralized media is the future and Nostr looks like the best option at this point. It is better to build up a new social network without shadowbanning and government restrictions.

I prefer installing your newest .apk at Github over using google play store. :)

Great to hear.

Re-calibrating our course is paying attention to how our inner compass has moved its needle.

Once AI algorithms have proper 3D models + natural poses as basis for characters, this will be improved.

However, AI algorithms are naturally inferior to human cognitive abilities: humans are always steps ahead in creative processes.

As we humans design new, sensible 3D models, an AI algorithm can only copy them after we have made them. Humans are far more advanced at intelligently designing things with purpose. Over time we will have stronger competition from AI, but simultaneously we develop better tools.

AI is mostly useful to speed up workflows and handle tedious tasks. Design decisions are fundamental for human expression and there is no reason to outsource them to algorithms. Contemporary human workflows are quite fast, even without AI.

Sorry to hear. Over time I think there needs to be improved approaches to security. We must wrestle intimately with problems in order to understand them properly, which takes time and consideration. The approach to log in with a single private key will cause some acxounts to be compromized over time.

We should have a master key that lets us change our private key, or to deactivate our account and link to a new one. The master key would not be exposed until we use it. Its usefulness would depend on how secure the master key is.

Also the nsec and npub keys are hard to find for those that haven't updated the Android OS. Without an OS update it appears to the user as if the grey buttons don't work and there is no text indicating what they are for. I agree that a separate menu option would be preferable, perhaps with option to hide/show the keys, plus a button to copy them to clipboard.

General feedback:

I think the scrolling system is fine to begin with, but it would in my view be more efficient to navigate via pages, where you define let's say 20 - 50 notes per page. In this way way can easily go back and forth in the notes flow without scrolling, just skipping pages.

Another possibility would be to define one page as 30 minutes of notes, and let users go back and forth between pages that way.