We unconsciously use humor to deride rival groups. Once more conscious of this, we can less laugh at such humor. Honesty makes us humorless.
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I am actually serious. This sort of thing breaks taste absolutism the way Michelson-Morley expt. broke Newton
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Problem with excellence wrt to a sweet spot is you can't fence out a key case: excellence...
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...excellence wrt 1 sweet spot might be anti-excellence wrt to another
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eg. more photorealism might make you more excellent re: renaissance, but less re: cubism.
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So a kid's scrawled stick figures may be accidentally higher on cubist scale than Rembrandt
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If you guys had a "speed of light is constant for all observers" foundation, I'd say you have something


