I never noticed until recently how ugly the platonic solids are - shouldn’t they be beautiful?? all that symmetry!
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this is pure gut feeling
I like ‘em
You may be vectoring in on a very fixed idea of “beauty” like Taleb. He’s got his fractal texture idee fixe you’ve got your fitness to function idee fixe.
The problem is beauty is a broad common language term, not a technical term for fragility or fitness studies
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It's quite natural that the gut prefers complex proteiny foldy shapes
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plants do geometry but in a mellow non-uptight kind of way
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golden ratio is an artifact of cells pissing other cells, they annoy each other like mimetic rivals until one of them decides to start migrating to the other side of the plant and make their own leaf.
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