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A short essay that made me notice other people's mistakes when talking about beauty (and numerous other topics): 2-Place and 1-Place Words by Eliezer Yudkowsky
by yboris 4y ago
A short essay that made me notice other people's mistakes when talking about beauty (and numerous other topics):
2-Place and 1-Place Words by Eliezer Yudkowsky
People use "beauty" as if it's a 1-place word (objective metric), rather than a 2-place word ("beautiful to entity X").
Now anytime anyone says "X is best" I follow up with "for who? and in what context?"
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eDpPnT7wdBwWPGvo5/2-place-and-1-place-words https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eDpPnT7wdBwWPGvo5/2-place-an...
- gowld 4y ago"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". You don't need to invent a new langauge to express age-old ideas. If you want to mathematize it, you can use standard terms like "relation" and "2-ary predicate".