jmmcd comments on A Transhumanist Poem - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Swimmer963 05 March 2011 09:16AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (48)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: jmmcd 05 March 2011 08:32:02PM 1 point [-]

Certainly, the poet should deviate from a consistent pattern, or avoid patterns completely, only if they know what they're doing. But using the term "allowed", in discussion of poetry (or any art) is wrong wrong wrong.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 05 March 2011 09:46:45PM 3 points [-]

In the spirit of charity, I normally unpack "X is not allowed" in these sorts of discussions to mean "X is very unlikely to achieve our shared goals."

The question of what, if anything, can profitably be assumed as shared goals in art is admittedly a trickier question.