beauty is the successful solving of such subproblems as the thing would need to solve in order to be beautiful
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
if you replace "beautiful" with "effective" in that last sentence then it starts having content but maybe not before
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
and then it better not be like "effective at what?" "effective at being beautiful"
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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 e.g. new art forms are just weird at first until your brain somehow absorbs an ideal they're shooting for1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@VesselOfSpirit would it be right to paraphrase this by saying you can see how it "fits" within a structure/tradition/school?5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing sorry i think i may have been using your tweets more as a springboard for thinking out loud than to actually understand1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@VesselOfSpirit if so I am honored
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing is being meta-honored a thing0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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