Agreed, though I think he didn't want to trap beauty too much in a specific formulation on that particular point.

It seems the beauty point is more about an open question: is the artwork attempting to celebrate beauty?

Principles of beauty exist, yet beauty is not the only component of value in an artwork. If we add the attempt, the striving toward beauty as one of a number of points, then that point doesn't overshadow the other possible values that an artwork can have.

Perhaps we don't need to pin down beauty with too many restrictions of definition.

I also have my reservations on that point, perhaps he can expand further. It seems a bit too subjective.

Good art vs bad art

Map by Jash Dholani, attempting to establish some differences between good and bad art. I love his initiative and think this is a good starting point for further exploration.

What would you add or change?

#Art #Philosophy

Useful meditation on democracy.

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"The despotism of faction is not less to be dreaded than the despotism of an individual."

- Alexis Tocqueville

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#Memes #Tocqueville #Quote #Philosophy #Democracy #Despotism

I found this statement from Mike today and figured it belongs on Nostr.

Link:

https://twitter.com/memcculloch/status/1723978571167748478

"Every dystopia needs an insane component to test if an individual will robotically comply or must be punished. Wokeism is the same. If it seems mad, that's the point."

Mike McCulloch, physicist (Quantised Inertia)

Blixt wallet is also awesome.

Nice. If I had designed the course I would have made the challenges a bit more realistic in relation to work procedures. I never had occasion to stack tires in that manner.😄

Härligt, bra jobbat!

Manipulation of money: expansion of the money supply.

Absolutely.

I favor local sovereign jurisdictions, in the range between the size of cities, municipalities and counties, perhaps even as large as U.S. states. Abolish federal/government taxes and control. Let individuals vote with their feet between jurisductions that are responsible for their own economy. Competition, freedom and options.

I think there are some advantages with Christian culture, even though I am atheist. There is more cohesion, higher degrees of social capital, focus on quality art, music and architecture, and so on.

My approach is that it is best to not interfere too much with the complex code of traditions, since I have limited understanding of the results.

Basic caution to not ruin that which works.

A few thoughts on why traditions matter, from an atheist and programming perspective.

There is a saying that traditions are solutions to problems that we have forgotten. Once traditions are removed, the problems they fixed come back.

Removing traditions can be likened to a programmer removing random lines and functions of code because he/she doesn't see what their purpose is.

The result is that the code starts malfunctioning, since the pieces of code that were removed had utility value that was forgotten.

Every programmer that returns to their own code 10 years later may delete or change vital parts of the code by mistake.

This is why programmers are reluctant to even fix a spelling error in a code that works, because downstream functions might reference that spelling as it is.

When we evaluate the value of culture and traditions that provide high degrees of social capital and societal cohesion, we must remember that they probably have a purpose, even if we don't understand it. Just as when we read code we wrote 10 years ago that we also don't fully understand.

Well said Iefan.

If one dollar bill is 0.11 millimeter thick, then ~3.5 trillion stacked dollar bills represent the average distance from the Earth to the Moon. (~385,000 km).

By this measure, 6 trillion represents 1.7 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

Heh.

With Bitcoin, you can secure both your wealth and your dignity. No golden watch damages on our watch.

With Bitcoin, people can cross the border without a painfully hidden golden watch.**

** Pulp Fiction reference.

Orc singing Warriors of The World.

(AI cover of Manowar)

😄

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3PJtzF368&pp=ygUQYWkgY292ZXIgbWFub3dhcg%3D%3D

Very concerning. We know that government welfare and UBI programs will be used to force government policy upon non-consenting individuals who are in a vulnerable economic situation. The standard government strategy is to deny this until they implement it.

I remember this from February:

https://twitter.com/ben_kew/status/1624539526042636288

What could possibly go wrong.

#Memes #Bitcoin