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This is going to be my wallpaper
“...take the trouble to do all that, and you do it carefully, then it may begin to have the quality which has no name.”
@robinhanson I'm struggling to parse this, please bear with me
Is the implication: to ground the cultural drift that began in the 1900s into a common good--we need very strong points of convergence, and a trusted mechanism that make one responsible for a tiny part instead of the whole?
“…trying to articulate the peculiar beauty of games, the value of play, and how game designers are a unique kind of artist who use scoring systems to shape our desires and our actions into something beautiful.”
@andy_matuschak If it's any consolation, I spoke to someone who used to work on the Substack product - the team is actively thinking about this problem
“In many ways, art is the soundtrack of my life. I am constantly looking for it, seeking to surround myself with it... Another reason I’m drawn to observing art is because it forces you to value something totally subjective…To me, that acknowledgment and appreciation of what an artist has achieved is, in and of itself, a step toward excellence.”
This is also how I’d approach it too—all of the essential areas are reasonably maintained all the time. One aesthetic method is to put a beloved object there so it increases the probability of you wanting to reset/remake it nicely:
“Many student interested in asking essential questions about how things work turned to software, not just to describe those things but also to make them, and not just to make them, but also to think through them.”