HonoreDB comments on Rationality quotes January 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: HonoreDB 09 January 2012 08:25:39PM -2 points [-]

I can’t be interested in form for form’s sake. Form is like mathematics: a model which might be applied to various sets of data. Form is seductive: form can be perfect. But there’s no justification for form (in the experiments and investigations) unless its used to expose content which has meaning. The result of an experiment is the meaningful content. Information is content. Content is fictional. Content is messy, like the universe it's unfinished and furthermore it becomes obsolete so quickly when multiplied by time. Form is reduplicable, content is not reduplicable. Fiction has meaning but only in a given instant of time. Lee Lozano

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 10 January 2012 10:11:09AM 4 points [-]

It's clear to infer what he's getting at, but this reminds me of nothing quite so much as Timecube.

Comment author: HonoreDB 10 January 2012 05:53:05PM 0 points [-]

I think it would come across as less crazy if it didn't use the word "fiction." But then it probably wouldn't have gotten into MoMA.

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