s0teri0s

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   by s0teri0s 5y ago

   There are vastly worse things to be than boring.
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   by s0teri0s 5y ago

   Sorry, I meant to indicate that my views have shifted again. I am not particularly sanguine about our collective future.
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   by s0teri0s 5y ago

   Steven Pinker's "Better Angels of Our Nature" and the sequel "Enlightenment Now" briefly helped to restore my faith that humanity is not entirely an evil virus best gone the way of the dinosaurs. Don't get me w
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   by s0teri0s 5y ago

   Do you feel that is true of Picasso, who was cited as an example in the article? When I see his oldest stuff, I can see the art in some of it, but other examples leave me questioning the validity of any his art. And Pollack literally just
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   by s0teri0s 5y ago

   I don't think it's fair to compare artists (painters) to poets and writers. Old famous painters can get away with anything. Deser says older artists 'aren't as restrained by convention;' I take that to mean there
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   by s0teri0s 5y ago

   I guess the non-creepy application I'm seeing for the future of this research is the seamless conversion of a 2D image into 3D for when 3D projectors become more commonplace and perhaps overtake the ubiquity of flatscreens on our devic
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   by s0teri0s 5y ago

   I still send them money (even though they have plenty of money) because I feel that despite its human flaws, it's still a better objective representation of 'the facts' than any other source on the planet. If, in fact, the e