.@KevinSimler returns to blogging with an ambitious, convincing theory of beauty. I buy almost all of it but I'm concerned with the difference between beautiful and attractive.
https://meltingasphalt.com/a-natural-history-of-beauty/ …
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aw thanks Jess. The basic pitch for beauty-as-PoW is just that a lot of artifacts that seem beautiful to us have the quality of being hard to make but also easy to verify (as having been difficult). I don’t think it’s a feature of all beautiful things, but many!pic.twitter.com/hIcRlblMsz
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Right. Dutton argues that artistic beauty is something like "proof of skill times effort".
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Anyway, underdeveloped thoughts, would love to hear riffs, elaborations, and/or counterexamples!
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