if you replace "beautiful" with "effective" in that last sentence then it starts having content but maybe not before
-
-
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
and then it better not be like "effective at what?" "effective at being beautiful"
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@VesselOfSpirit (a) causing flourishing (b) elegantly encoding information ?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing hmm. is it really about effectiveness? hacks can be effective but ugly1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@VesselOfSpirit I wonder if it's no more than a reminder that looking at "beauty" is looking at the outward-reaching parts of our brains1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@VesselOfSpirit including their capacity to appreciate elegant/simple encodings of complexity - brute effectiveness doesn't do this5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing "brain abstracts ideal structures somehow from sensory inputs and then beauty is similarity to one of the structures"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@VesselOfSpirit not ideal structures at all - just ones that are appreciable by meat brains1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing i just meant "implicitly recognized thing such that brain determines whether other things are beautiful by comparing to it"1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@sarahdoingthing again though it seems like that's hard to distinguish from "brains prefers some things to others with local monotonicity"1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@sarahdoingthing "and whatever things are at the local maxima are the ideal things"
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.