It is very difficult to make unsexy topics sexy. Traits that make it hard to create good conversations: things change slowly and gradually with no big breakpoints, vast information gap between small core of deep insiders and large apathetic outside world, no Hero’s Journey arcs
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I think most things have big breakpoints on long enough time scales: eventually the Sun will eat the Earth - that's pretty sexy.
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The question may not be how do I convert an abstract painting into a concrete sculpture, rather why. Topics drifting away from the masses become unsexy.
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So Crypto circa. '09 - neckbeard level unsexy? How did that ugly duckling become a Swan?
Is there a consensus to topic unsexiness?
Naively, I think beauty in eye of the problem pursuer.
I am monomaniacal about pothole surveys & gnosticism - they are elegantly unsexy.
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