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by romwell 2y ago
>I've re-read this paragraph like twenty times and I'm still not sure what to make of it. Re-read what it was written in response to. You argued a lot that something like Black Square has little "artistic merit"
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Or, we should ax that co. from supplying space missions.
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They seem to not get that they are judging other people , not the work itself, when the say something has no artistic merit . At the same time they say that: - They would look down on an art history PhD who tries to tell them there's
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by romwell 2y ago
>I'm honest enough to say I don't get the point of the soup can. That doesn't stop me from saying it's low-effort. It is low-effort. That is the point . Not that you could be a good judge of effort in general.
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>You're asking me to either judge the work on the same grounds as you do, or to abstain from opining if I can't Not at all. You go far beyond "judging on your own grounds" by saying that something has little artist
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by romwell 2y ago
>Good, I'm glad you find it infuriating If you came here to infuriate other people (or think it's good that it happens), you have come to the wrong place. Please reconsider.
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>Your approach to art is a beautiful combination of a toddler and a grumpy old man. Everything else aside, this is an absolutely brilliant (and succinct) way of describing that attitude, and I'm absolutely going to steal it.
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>I can simply tell you to piss off. I'm not entitled to receive an education from you and you're not entitled to have me not write stupid things. The difference is that I'm not asking you to not write stupid things , bu
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by romwell 2y ago
>I don't agree that mathematics is art with no qualifiers whatsoever No art is without qualifiers. Mathematics is a kind of art. So is painting. Not every calculation or result is art, and not every application of paint. The qual
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>Why? Why is that the question to ask? Why must be considered in this specific way, rather than any other? Have you asked the same question about your definitions? You might as well ask why words have certain meanings rather than any o
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by romwell 2y ago
The point here is that nobody owes you a course in art history which would answer all of your why questions when many such courses are available. You're not entitled to free education from us, particularly - against your will (&quo
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by romwell 2y ago
>I sure hope you're not going to argue that it has the same artistic merit as literally any song of the same duration with at least one note. No, the argument is that it has comparable artistic merit to the Black Square .
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I would say that your definition of artistic merit disagrees with what people in the art world use (both artists and people who appreciate art), and is way more aligned with the criteria the patent office and the copyright law use. That&#
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by romwell 2y ago
>Here in Argentina, in some places there were a few types of fraud, for example chain voting Thanks for pointing out another vulnerability of in-person voting that mail-in voting doesn't have, due to its distributed nature. Chain
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Hi from the US. You don't seem to understand that what you see as problems to be solved are seen as features by half of our politicians, who would rather have people not vote at all. These are the vulnerabilities of in-person vot
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by romwell 2y ago
You're moving the goalposts from difficulty to recreate (your choice of words), i.e. copy, to difficulty of creating something without having seen it before (i.e., telepathy). By this definition, this comment of mine is peak artist
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>Simply put (or at least this is how I use the term), it's the measure of how difficult it is to recreate an artistic work, or something very similar to it, especially without having seen it before So, there's no art since ph
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by romwell 2y ago
>There's no art in the black square or in the soup can That's a new hot take... For 1915. My friend, do yourself a favor and take an art history class. You'll both get to more art and understand it better in the process
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by romwell 2y ago
Then Kandinsky (and other Suprematists) were what, Russian Tsar's psyop? Because surely you can't beat a literal black square [1] in the "come on, you call this art?!" category. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org
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What is artistic merit? You look at something, and it makes you feel a certain way, think a certain way, say to yourself - wow, I've never seen anything like this before - isn't this a big part of artistic merit ? That's t
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by romwell 2y ago
>What's the cost of a 10 mile fiber optic cable, relative to the RF drone jammer it defeats, or the $5K drone it defends? Far less than the cost of the target it destroys, or the life of a trained soldier it kills.
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The more relevant part is that Ukraine is using them right now, and that has been specifically mentioned in the article.
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>The anti tank guided missile designers of 50+ years ago would find this rather obvious. TOW missiles are specifically mentioned in the article as an example of this technology being in active use for decades (and particularly, right n
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>in person voting appears to have least drawbacks Citation needed. Specifically, what are the drawbacks of mail-in voting compared to in-person voting? >Mail-in system is used in some countries The US is one of those some countries
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>What stops people responsible for giving out those ballots, from taking some of them and mail under someone's else name (for example, homeless person, drug addict etc)? A requirement to keep a record of which paper ballot envelo
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by romwell 2y ago
Please forget about showing up physically because conflating l caring* with your ability to do things physically is ableist as fuck, and not all disabilities are visible and/or certifiable. Please forget about showing up physically
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Great, so their spouses can just lock them in to prevent them from voting. Or simpler, leave them with the kids (nobody else to watch them). Disabled people must love this idea, too. And sick people. And elderly. I think we could take this
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...so, the hippogator was dangerous because he was literally full of shit. Hmmmm.
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10 days. How very generous of them.
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TL;DR: — Zuckerberg says releasing a tunable model (without the training data set and the tools to train from it) "Open Source" — It isn't It's fascinating double-speak, because by any reasonable definition of the word

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