Hacker News comments are a very low-bandwidth channel, and I bet I'm nothing like you think I am in person. Anyway, Ayn Rand had a clearly-articulated theory o

Hacker News comments are a very low-bandwidth channel, and I bet I'm nothing like you think I am in person. Anyway, Ayn Rand had a clearly-articulated theory of art (she wrote a whole book about it), so there's really nothing to "confirm" here. But if there were, you couldn't rationally do it from one data point anyway.