can you look at the structure of a criterion for goodness or beauty and be able to tell whether it originated in "similarity to an ideal"
so if i want to state an observation like "introspection suggests beauty is similarity to an ideal thing" i'm not sure that has content
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but maybe i'm not sure "beauty is fit" has content either?
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beauty is the successful solving of such subproblems as the thing would need to solve in order to be beautiful
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if you replace "beautiful" with "effective" in that last sentence then it starts having content but maybe not before
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and then it better not be like "effective at what?" "effective at being beautiful"
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@VesselOfSpirit (a) causing flourishing (b) elegantly encoding information ? -
@sarahdoingthing hmm. is it really about effectiveness? hacks can be effective but ugly -
@VesselOfSpirit I wonder if it's no more than a reminder that looking at "beauty" is looking at the outward-reaching parts of our brains -
@VesselOfSpirit including their capacity to appreciate elegant/simple encodings of complexity - brute effectiveness doesn't do this - 3 more replies
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