From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jan 16 1997 - 18:29:55 MST
> It seems like Eliezer may not value beauty, which, to me, seems like an
> unfortunate tragedy. How can one who doesn't value beauty be convinced of the
> importance of art?
I value a different kind of beauty, that in "Godel, Escher, Bach", or
Bach, or Godel ... maybe even Escher ... but not Picasso and Co. I
appreciate Icon the programming language for its "suspend" and generator
functions, and quantum physics for its strangeness, and cognitive
science, on certain rare occasions, for its elegance. I think that some
Extropian pictures are "Cool". Art in the classical-painting sense,
though, is simply dead to me.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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