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Aside: I think I have deep suspicion of "beauty" as a heuristic for guiding decisions in any domain besides math
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And now we slip into solipsism and aesthetic relativism
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not being able to talk about beauty and ugliness is part of what gets us so much ugliness. I know it's low status.
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wut? 90% of human discourse seems to be about beauty/ugliness to me. We just call it "values"
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I think it's useful to talk about beauty specifically, because "information reaching our senses" is a special value domain
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It is a plurality of value domains. That's what causes problems. People can see the same thing and not agree on beauty.
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Because as Kant (?) said, "we see not what is, but who we are"... it's as much/more projection as perception/sensing.

