Wow, I’m convinced! In all seriousness: why do you insist on an intellectual totem pole with art being more “hoity toity” as you say, and more worthy? And if s

Wow, I’m convinced! In all seriousness: why do you insist on an intellectual totem pole with art being more “hoity toity” as you say, and more worthy? And if so, why is engineering below painting? In mathematics and some hard sciences, and in absolutely elementary aspects of other fields like programming, things can be proven to be right or wrong. In every other endeavour, we need to repeatedly apply fuzzy judgements. Some do this poorly, some do it well. Just in case you actually are interested in nuance, here’s some more on the topic: https://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html https://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/idea-having-is-not-art https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/idea-having-is-not-art