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"I will never respect it simply because there was a lot of effort involved." Nor will I, or much of anyone else, I imagine. I respect it because it stimulates
by breadbox 13y ago
"I will never respect it simply because there was a lot of effort involved."
Nor will I, or much of anyone else, I imagine. I respect it because it stimulates my mind. My imagination is moved by it in much the same way that it's moved by holding an acorn in my hand while contemplating a fully grown oak tree. Or studying the math that causes z <- z^2 + C to describe a ridiculously intricate shape. Or implementing my own minimal Lisp interpreter from scratch. Or trying to understand the Banach-Tarski paradox. These things stimulate my sense of wonder because they're like a magic trick, but there's no trickery involved. And when I contemplate them, I learn more about the world. Art cannot aspire to much more than that.
- gambler 13y agoNor will I, or much of anyone else, I imagine. Yet people gladly upvote stories about computers implemented insite Minecraft and life-size spaceships made out of Lego blocks. Are you saying it has nothing to do with the difficulty involved? I doubt this story would be equally well received if there was some easy way to achieve the same result. If you take difficulty of the task out of the equation, what will be left? How much of what's left is genuine creativity and skill, and how much is mere patience?
- breadbox 13y ago"Are you saying it has nothing to do with the difficulty involved?" No, of course not. The "simply" was what I was disagreeing with.